Encore CS5.5 "skewing" button highlights

Hi all,
I've searched the forums but I can't seem to find a similar thread, so here goes.
I've created a pretty simple DVD menu, with five buttons and an area for a 30-second preview of the film to play on a loop. I'm having some trouble with the button highlights, in that they are "skewing" in both the preview and the final build.
This first picture is a screen grab in Photoshop, with all the highlights turned on. I've simplified the "Main Film" highlight to a box for the purposes of this post, so you can see what's happening in Encore.
When I generate a preview in Encore however, it's skewed dramatically, and the bottom-right corner of the box seems to be coming back in the bottom-left highlight area! I'm at a complete loss.
Does anyone here know what I've done to cause this, and more importantly, what I can do to fix it?
Thanks VERY much,
Paul

I don't know what is causing this.
What is the plain layer in each button that is above the highlight layer? Even if it is not a problem, since you are having issues, I'd move the highlight layer above it and see if that makes any difference.
Just FYI, the thumbnail layer at the bottom, results in the "background" layer not being the technical background/locked layer. Since it is still named "background," it may be okay. If you use a motion background, the current "backgroun" may still cover it. Learned this the hard way, doing lots of still menus, and then when adding the first motion backgrounds couldn't figure out why they didn't work. I assume, since that part appears to be working, that your "background" is an image that covers the motion background. Another method (just turn off the "background" layer to test) is to put that image into the movie playing in the background.

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