DVD menus: Which item is selected?

I've created a DVD from old Super-8 mm film reels. I got 6 years of movies, typically 5 3-minute reels from each year.
In iMovie I assembled all 30 reels in date order, inserted titles for each year, added music, made chapter markers for each year's title and for each reel, and created my iDVD project.
In iDVD, I created the DVD menu from a theme with two buttons: "Play Movie" which starts at the beginning of the entire movie and "Select a Scene" which takes you to another menu. The second menu allows the viewer to select a year, which starts playing at the year's title scene. At the bottom of this menu is another button "Reel by Reel" which takes you to a third menu that lists each year again. This time if you select a year, however it takes you to another menu listing the reels from that year.
The whole structure is like this:
DVD->
Play Movie
Select a Scene->(new menu)
Start at the Beginning
Year 1
Year 6
Reel by Reel->(new menu)
Year 1->(new menu)
Reel 1
Reel n
Year 2->(new menu)
Reel 1
Reel n
Year 6->(new menu)
Reel 1
Reel n
It's amazing, but it all works!
Except for one annoying thing: When I click on any of the buttons marked "(new menu)," the new menu shows up correctly and all the buttons are even in the right visual and navigation order, but...a random button is initially selected!
If my menu shows Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5, and Y6, it might be "Y3" that is initially selected when the menu is displayed.
Does anyone have any ideas how to set which button gets pre-selected when a menu is displayed?
Thanks!
Jeff

Jeff:
That problem seems to be a bug with iDVD 5. Many of us have reported the same occurrence. Currently I've not read about any fix for it. We're all hoping the next update will take care of it.

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