DVD Studio Pro 4.1 color/menu/button issues

I just got the latest version of Final Cut Studio with DVD Studio Pro 4.1 and am having issues with menus and buttons. For some reason no matter what I do to the color settings my menus are always gray and the buttons never reflect the color changes I make. Am I missing something?

Hi - welcome to the discussions!
Could you be a little more specific here... for example, when you say the menus are always gray, do you mean when you use the menu editor or after you have built a disc? Button colours are set in several ways... what is the workflow that you are using?

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