Encore not playing seemless

Hello!
I got a little problem.
I have a film with 6 chapterpoints.
1 main menu with play movie button
1 chapter menu with 6 buttons for the chapters.
the six buttons are linked to a chapter.
ex. If I press button 4, it plays ch 4 and goes back to chaptertmenu when ch 5 starts.
I´ve put an end action command on ch 4 to end at ch 5, and a override command on button 4 to link to button 4.
My problem is when I want to play the whole movie. When it plays, its a short stop on my chapterpoints. I doesnt play seemless.
It´s like it´s reading the chaptercommands and then continuing.
IRL the dvd production is 8.5 Gb big, so a can´t have a a copy of any clip.
It only one long film, no separate clips.
Does anyone understand? :-)
How to play the film seemless and still have the possibillity to se just one chapter.
Best regards
//Robin

The projekt grewing bigger and bigger asa we write. The customer wants each chapter to stand alone...if you understand me.. i got at most 10 chplaylist on one timeline.
Its a comedy show 2 and a half hour... I have about 45 mb free :-)
I usally do the programming like a movie dvd= play chapter three or whatever and then it continues to the end but sometimes the customer what do do it the hard way :-(
I did the old trick. delete each playlist and find where the problem is...finaly i reprogramed 8 chplaylit for 1 timeline, maybe a corrupt file or something. And "Eureka" it works. At least to create an DVD folder.
Thanks for your time and good advise!
I probaly be back lol
Robin //Sweden

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