FINAL CUT PRO and iDVD CHAPTER BUTTONS MIXED-UP

Hello to all,
I have finished this project that's 113 minutes long in FCP 5.0.4, and have successfully burned a disc. I had exported the Quicktime compression (along with 48 chapters) to iDVD 08 (I do not have DVD Pro).
I used the sunflower template and all went well, but unfortunately, I made a blunder in the scrolling titles and chapter locations, and had to go back and do it all again! So, I started a new iDVD project and have been through another 11 hour encode.
+"Everything burned OK the second time, with the exception of some of the chapter menu buttons."+
For some reason - four out of seven pages (meaning their chapter buttons) are mixed up. If you navigate down, it goes up, if you navigate right - it goes down, and so on and so forth.
Three page buttons are just fine.
Any quick enlightenment, would be appreciated. I'm trying to finish this project to burn a few dozen discs for the client by wed.
Thanks to all input!
-TEXASFLOOD

Hi,
Well, that's right, but since I had a previous question and response concerning chapter markers in FCP using iDVD, they were answered by Redtruck and a host of others users. This new problem I'm having, I thought, might actually have it's possible roots with FCP, since thats where the markers were fist laid down. But, I'm probably wrong about that.
I will go ahead and post in iDVD.
Thanks much!
-TEXASFLOOD

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