Encore CS5.1 and Video Menus

Hello all!
Hoping somebody knowledgeable can give me a hand here!
So, the story is I am creating a video menu for a Blu-Ray project using Photoshop CS5.1 and Premiere Pro CS5.5.
I have created the buttons in Photoshop, and I have then 'disabled' the background layer so I just have the buttons. I have saved this as a PSD and inserted in Encore as a menu.
I made a video in Premiere Pro CS5.5 which I'd like to use as my menu background. It is 2 minutes 43 seconds long and was rendered in MP4 h.264 HDTV 1080p 24fps straight from Premiere Pro, since this is for a Blu-Ray disc. The video is 302MB in size. The video has audio so I have not specified a specific audio file for my video menu.
Now the problem is when I put all of this into Encore and click on the Preview in Encore, all I am seeing is the text/buttons from my PSD file, and not any video. I have pressed the little 'Render' button but it's not working. In a previous project (which I have now sadly deleted), I used a shorter and smaller (in file size) video and also a different PSD file and I got it to work - but I don't understand why it isn't working now.
I saw in some other threads people were saying that they have had problems with the menu being 'too big' when they checked it. I don't have this problem when I check it.
I've tried another video file and the same thing is happening - can only see the buttons/text, but no video. Maybe my PSD file is the problem?
Anybody got any idea as to why this isn't working? I'll post some screenshots below so you can see:
Menu buttons in Photoshop - all look OK?
What I see in the Preview window - I should see the video playing and the buttons, right? Not just the buttons? As you can see, I've linked it to the video which I want.
Here are my menu layers as displayed in Encore - does it look correct?
This is the 'Check Build' window - no errors found (deseleted button links because I have no video imported at the moment, only working on the menu at the moment).
Finally, my build settings. I'll be putting this on a 25GB Blu-Ray disc. I presume that 500MB or so is used for the menu?
Thank you to anybody who can help me out!

Hi there, thanks for your input!
I've not had a look at the highlights and stuff like that yet, I've just been trying to get this video to work as a menu background. I will get round to looking at highlights shortly.
I will turn the visibility on and get back to you tomorrow on that - hopefully it will work!
You can already see the Motion Tab in my second screenshot on the far left. I'll post a new screenshot tomorrow if it helps though.
Thanks!

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