DVD Navigation Woes - Advice Needed

Hi
I'm working on an education DVD with multiple sections. Within each section, there may be, for example, a video sequence, then an interactive element implemented as a menu (multi-choice questions etc.), followed by more video.
At present, this is implemented as a track with a marker in the middle that jumps to a menu and then a button ("Done") on the menu that jumps back to the marker on the track.
The problem with this set-up is that it wrecks havock with end-user navigation. The user expects the sequence to 'flow' as a continous piece and expects that when the hit 'back' or 'next' on their remote, that the will follow the sequence through.
Of course, that does not happen. Because there is a jump away to a menu, it's ignored when the user uses the remote to navigate. Or when on the interactive menu, back and forward buittons have no effect.
Can anyone propose a solution that will allow me include interactive menu items in video material and make this as transparent as posible to end users?
Many thanks for any advise posited.
Peter

Welcome to the boards
What you can try is buttons over video with a pause...in other words the video will play then come to a section that looks like a menu (but is effectively a still) where you can make multiple choice selections, when the selection is made it continues from there
Download this
http://www.dvdstepbystep.com/BOV.dmg
Which is a quick rough of the idea, and some tweaks can be added

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