DVD Studio Pro no playing

Hey,
I have a 45 minute dvd with a menu that I burned today. it will play on my mac but not my dvd player or any of our Pc's. And also the menu button will not work in the DVD Player.
I have a quickly approaching deadline and guidance would be appreciated.

Nope, I was wrong. Deleting the preferences didn't do a thing. It would appear as though my glitch has to do with the menu screen and specifically with the buttons on the menu screen being to close to the edge (my buttons all ran the entire width of the frame, from edge to edge). As soon as I "shortened" the buttons, pulling them within title safe, and did a new Build/Format it worked just fine.
I don't know if this was the same problem you were having, but I hope it helps.

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