Encore 5.1 Blu Ray transcodes always lost

So I've read in other forms that some Adobe CS products are still crashing upon quit... at least on MAC systems. Knowing this, I save my Encore project every 15min or so just to be safe. I've transcoded all of my assets, build my menus etc, build a folder to test, quit out of Encore (again, sometimes crash, sometimes not) burn to BLU-RAY RW to test, realize I need to make changes, open up Encore project again and, bam, all of my assets say untranscoded. I look where the previous transcodes were written and they're all there with crazy file names. I can, if I choose, to relink or locate, but this is a temp. fix not a solution, and it takes time to figure out what transcode belongs to what asset. Why in the world would Encore lose the link to the transcodes to begin with?
Thanks for any insight!
System Specs:
10.6.7
2 x 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
32GB memory
CS 5.5 Production Premium

Since you have not mentioned any Project settings or more details of your project, I would advise you check for the following two things :
1. Make sure you save your project after transcoding or building the project before you quit Encore.
2. And make sure you are checking the Blu-ray Transcode status for the files. This is because you are saying that the transcoded files are there in the project folder. So I can not think of a situation where the transcoded files are present in the Transcodes folder but the status in the project is "Untranscoded".
One more thing you can try to make sure the transcode link is present - just build your project to Blu ray again. It should not transcode the files again if the files are present in the transcode folder.
One More thing I want to ask you : Are your assets coming offline or they are normal ? This offline thing can happen when you have moved the transcodes folder to some other location, then the assets becomes Untranscoded and offline.
Thanks,
Ramesh.

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e.       Going into the "Edit Quality Presets", I change the "Export
Settings Preset" to "1920x1080i 29.97 Maximum Quality" (from the 1280x720)
4.       Now, in the Project Panel, under the Blu-ray Transcode Settings I
see: "1920x1080i 29.97 Maximum Quality MPEG-2".
Are these the correct settings for a high quality Blu-ray project? I am
re-transcoding the project with these settings to see if I still get the bad
transitions.
Thanks for your advice,
Laci.

Encore CS5 Blu-ray Track Problems

I've burned my Encore CS5 project to Blu-ray several times now. It chiefly consists of a Main Menu, a Scenes Menu, and a single timeline containing around 41 tracks (only one soundtrack). When I preview the Blu-ray version within Encore, it works perfectly. Not so with the burned version.
When I play the finished Blu-ray disc in each of my two Blu-ray players (completely different brands) and move from track to track, I can't jump from track 28 to 29. In fact, when Chapter 28 finishes playing, it bumps me back to the Main Menu. The only way I can continue playing the disc is to manually go to the Scenes Menu and start playing from chapter 29 (which, of course, won't let me jump back to chapter 28). It's as if Encore has split my single timeline into two different timelines.
Furthermore, when I start playing from a chapter within the Scenes Menu, then press the Menu button on my remote, it takes me back to the Main Menu even though End Action is set to return to the last menu.
I know I haven't done anything wrong because if I burn this exact same project onto a standard DVD, it works exactly the way it's supposed to!
Is this some sort of Encore bug? Or is it a limitation of the Blu-ray standard (which I thought maxed out at 90-something tracks, not 28).
Can anyone offer some insight here? If it's an Encore problem, any suggestions on how to get around it without having to wait for an Encore patch (I'm fully up-to-date on my versions)?
Thanks!!

As a follow up, I tried knocking down the number of chapters by 1/3 so there would be a total of 28 chapters instead of 41. As it turns out, the disc is still exiting the timeline and returning to the main menu at exactly the same point (which happens to be one second into a particular chapter of the timeline, just shy of 90 minutes into the timeline). It's as if Encore has split my single timeline into two timelines.
If it's of any help understanding what's happening, the entire timeline is 02;05;23;21 long. When Encore creates the Blu-ray disc, playback of the timeline ends at approximately 01;26;43;10. I then have to go to my Scenes menu and pick up where I left off as it's the only way to see the last ~39 minutes of the sequence.
As I mentioned, if I burn this as a standard definition (4.7GB) disc, it plays normally with no breaks. It's only if I burn it to a 25GB single-layer Blu-ray disc that I see the problem (using multiple Blu-ray players).
Thanks in advance for any light that can be shed on this problem.

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