DVD simulates fine, no audio on menu after burn

This is a problem that has been driving me crazy, I've spent weeks authoring a DVD package consisting of three films, bonus features, and the soundtrack.
I wasn't sure how to approach the soundtrack, I ended up making it up as a set of menus, so that you can easily navigate next track, prev track, back to menu whist listening to the songs. I've set these up exactly as I have every other menu, and everything works perfectly when I simulate it within Encore CS5. Alas when I burn the DVD the music will play for the first track, but not for any others.
I've tried this with .aiff .wav .ac3 same result each time. The part that really has me stumped is that the first track will play, and every menu is set up in the exact same way.. therefore I can't see what i'm doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

And use normal black text on a white background. I can't even read the problem.

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John is right....in the iMovie discussions there are lots of messages regarding sound problems in burned DVDs. Sound is fine in iMovie....no fixes, some work-arounds you might try. Sorry I don't have the exact links, but you can do a search in iMovie 6.
Try these: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=333937&tstart=50
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1577936&#1577936
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1981566&#1981566
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