DVD Studio Pro 4 Menu background dissapears

I'm new to DVD Sp and I'm a little confused with it so far.
I used an Apple template and put together the menu with 5 buttons, a short Qt movie that loops that I dropped in the main drop zone frame, 4 jpeg pics in drop zones and I created a pict file for the button under lines that show when you rollover the button. That pict file is created with a white background and a white background is all I see when I load the disk into a player.. Everything looks great and it all works great in the DVD simulator but, when I burned the DVD the light brown colors from the template that also reveal a classy light effect is gone. When I select one of the buttons and it starts the transition to the scene the background shows briefly. I tried playing this DVD on my Mac, Philips DVD player and a Panasonic DVD Player and it looks the same on each player.
Anyone have any ideas ??
Thanks for any response. I'm of course working under a deadline...
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3 ghz.   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

OK - let's go a step at a time...
Create a new project, add the template to the menu and at least a .pict file to track one, but don't connect the menu and track... and do nothing else. Build that and open it with DVDPlayer. Does the menu show as it should?
If so, add the drop zone items, build that and open it with DVDPlayer... is it still showing?
If so, add the proper track assets and connect a menu button to the track... build and check again.
By using a process of elimination you should find the problem.
Using the same project and simply deleting the assets from the menu may not give you the result, unless you also delete the PAR folders that DVDSP has created (look in the folder where the assets are - or in the MPEG folder that DVDSP creates... they'll be around there somewhere unless you have changed the location in your preferences 'Destinations' settings).

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