Elements 10 - blurry disc/main menu

Hi, in Elements 10 I am experiencing a blurry disc/main menu. The rest of the video (stills, title pages and videos) are clear. How can I resolve?

SunshineLollipops
What computer operating system is your Premiere Elements 10 running on and what video card/graphics card does your computer use. Background information for now.
Is your report restricted to previewing of your disc menu in the disc menu section of the opened project? Or, do these problems present in the playback of the end product burn to disc?
If just to previewing within the project, then please take the project to burn to disc and evaluate the disc menu playback on your supported player.
Premiere Elements (any version) disc menu previews are not good. Classically the major perk of previewing the disc menu within the project is to determine if the navigation buttons are working and that there are no button overlaps.
Please supply more details and then we can decide what next.
Thank you.
ATR

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