DVD Studio: 1st-Play menu buttons not "clickable" ...

hi Folks,
Using DVD Studio Pro 4.1.2 ... creating my first complex build; I have one "first play" menu,
offering 3 choices (via buttons), that lead to 2 sub-menu's or a 1st track choice.
I embedded a 5-min audio clip to play behind the "1st-play" menu, which I did get to work.
When I simulate the compilation, all buttons on all menus work fine.
When I burned the compilation to DVD, none of the 3 buttons on my first play
menu worked.  None seem "clickable" while the music plays, hovering over
any with the mouse did not change the shape of the pointer, as is is expected.
Is there something in the playing of music that might be screwing up the
linking ability of the button?
Seems that once the music stopped, I could somehow get into one of the sub-menu's
playing the DVD on my iMac, playing it on a PC, nothing worked.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
thanks

Tried Gary's suggestion, dropped in a 3-second black movie (.mov, rendered in FCE - not a graphic) for the 'first-play' menu, which is set to jump the 'main' menu with the 3 choices and the music in the background.  It gets to the 2nd menu, but the 2nd menu buttons are also not clickable (again) in the final burn.  They ARE in the simulation.
a little frustrated by my Mac world on this one, I sent my AC3 & M2V streams over to my PC - but these files - at least the M2V portions,(rendered by compressor) are not readable and bring up arcane error messages in both my DVD authoring programs on the PC (DVD Architect Studio & DVD Lab Pro).   That's a different game altogether, though.
anyway, still wasting DVDs and no answer yet..
thanks for all attempts ...

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