DVD menu, overlay question

Hello fellow DVD menu builders, I need your help. I created a menu in Photo with different layers, I flattened the image to .pct: one is the background, the other is the overlay where the word itself should turn a white color when it is activated. It's not working. Here's what I did, I dragged the background .pct onto the blank menu in DVDSP, I set the dropbox as to Background, I dragged my overlay onto the DVDSP, using Overlay for a setting. Then I created a button where I want viewers to activate the button, but my overlay does not show up therefore viewers will not know when it is activated. So when I simulated the menu, the button never changed color, it goes immediately to the movie.
More info: the Start button is in light blue, the activated overlay is in white.
Thank you!
KChen

To clarify, your overlay generally needs to be black graphics on a white background.
Read this thread for more info:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2318990&tstart=0

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