Encore CS4 menu button problems

I just started using Encore CS4 and I made a menu for a video. The menu was taken from the library, but I added another button by typing text, then right clicking the text and selecting the choice to make the text into a button. When I burned it to DVD, the text button had no highlight, so I could not choose it when the DVD was played in my DVD player. When the DVD was played in my computer, I could choose the text button and it worked fine, it just didn’t work in my DVD player. So, my question is: how do I create a menu button in Encore (from scratch and not from the library) that has a highlight when selected on my DVD player?
Also, is there a good source for freeware buttons and menus that I could download and use in Encore?

I don't fully understand what I did, but it is now working. That is, I created a new button and the highlight works just fine. If I look at the layers tab, the new button and the old button have the same layers. I guess I could open them into Photoshop, but I have never used PS, so was hoping I could do this all in Encore. Guess now is a good time to learn PS.

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