Flickering still images

I'm a new user of DVD Studio Pro and it has worked well for me, but I've hit snag.
In addition to a number of video clips on a DVD project I'm using a series of menus to display still images. Each menu has a still of a frog and a still of a range map for that species of frog. I'm putting these stills in drop zones in order to get them on the menu and to be able to size them appropriately.
The problem is that when I burn the DVD the images on these menus flicker or seem alternate between two versions of the images. If I look at the drop zone properties I can see that motion is enabled and grayed out in most cases. The navigation buttons I placed along the bottom of the menu also look strange and don't work reliably. Any suggestions?

what part of the image is flickering? text, the whole thing, or something thin?
DVDSP isnt really designed for any type of editing or creation.
I would suggest you make all your Menu backgrounds (with your frogs and maps) in photoshop and make a merged copy then place those as the background of the menu and only use text in DVDSP.
since you are using drop zones, its almost like having layers. DVDSP doesn't like layers which is why i make background images for everything.
if your text is flickering the a few things might be happening... text is either to small or to thin... you shouldnt go below 20pt for size and dont use anything with serifs or thin letters. those will flicker due to the nature of encoding.
if it still flickers after that then you might have to add either a really slight blur to your item thats flickering or maybe even create a quicktime movie using a flicker filter in final cut.
are you using compressor to encode your video? (also use Dolby 2.0 AC3) files for Audio.
this might help... if not you might help me figure it out by telling my which part is flickering.
let me know and ill try to figure something out if thats not working...
-bryan

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