Encore Skipping Chapter Markers

I am working in Encore 2.0 in the final phase of the project. I've used this program many times before with little to no problems. Whenever I go to test the final DVD, both Encore and my DVD player will skip 3 of the 9 chapters on the menu. I have double and triple checked the formatting, that the text was selected as buttons, they were pointing to the correct marker, they were in the correct numerical order, and even if the layers were in order in Photoshop. All of the markers were all created from the same layer copy in Photoshop to make sure the formatting was the same for all markers (I have done this in the past with no problems). Also, with the skipping, using the down arrow to select chapters will skip the 3rd and 7th one on the way down, and on the way up you can select the 7th, but it will skip the second on the way up. I don't know what's going on and all of the forums I have read online have been no help!
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
- Thanks

Perhaps the button routing is incorrect:
First enable "Show Button Routing" in the Menu Editor. Then uncheck "Automatically Route Buttons" in the menu's Properties. Now you can drag and drop the arrows the way you want the navigation keys on the remote control to work.

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