DVD Studio Pro 3 Subtitle Issue

I'm authoring a few discs that are meant to be auto play and auto looping. I need to watermark the programs for copyright reasons, so I used the subtitle a subtitle. I clicked the box to force display and then applied to stream. When the program begins the watermark/subtitle is there. If I push stop and then push play again, the subtitle is disabled. If I click the menu or title button, it takes me back to the beginning of the program and the watermark is there again. What is causing the subtitle do become disabled. Aside from going back into FCP and waiting a long time for the files to render or to be limited to 4 second title clips in imovie, I am out of options. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can be contacted on here or at [email protected]
Thanks
DJ

The problem with placing the video in a menu to solve the problem as suggested is you could hit the 1Gb limit on menus...
Not surfe how you've placed your subtitle - is it one long subtitle? If not what might be worth trying is set your subtitle to say 3 seconds long then slectit in the time line and do Cmd+D (if memory serves) to duplicate it until it fills up the timeline. It will "drop out" when you fast forward but then drop back in when it hits the next 3 second interval...
Hope that makes sense.
Steve

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