End Actions in DVD SP3

I'm currently authoring a DVD-9 in DVDSP 3.0.2 and are having problems with end actions with respect to stories.
I have a movie as a single track with chapters, and I also have a number of stories, each one consisting of a single chapter with both the menu jump and end jump linked to the MainMenu_Loop and the button highlight of the chapter. The end jump of the single track is the MainMenu_Intro, button 1.
"Play All" links to the single track and the individual chapters link to the relevant stories.
"Next Chapter", "Fast Forward" and even normal play cause the disc to jump to the MainMenu_Intro at the end of each story. This happens on Panasonic, Sony and Pioneer DVD Players.
Being rather new to DVDSP, I was wondering if this was a known issue, or am I missing something very simple?
Matt

Can you describe "MainMenu_Loop" and "MainMenu_Intro" in more detail? Are they menus, or are they tracks with buttons over video?
Does it work properly in Simulator? If you play back the VIDEO_TS build with DVD Player, does it work or not work?

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