Help! First Play Woes DVDSP4 confused non-newbie

I thank you if you are able to shed some light on this.
We have made many discs with a first play track, logos, legal etc. All work fine but our most recent project is not, for no reason we can see.
We have a 30sec video as the first play, before going to main menu, works fine on very first play but pressing stop twice on a DVD remote, then play again does not return to the first play but plays another track completely (the longest on the disc, if that is any clue) Ejecting the disc and re-playing works as it should. We have tried on many set tops with the same result, however on a Mac or PC with playback software it seems fine.
Here's what we have tried with no change in result, each new attempt had a completely fresh build and image:
- Disabled user control on first play track (this was the only difference between this and other discs we have made that work)
- Deleted offending (longest) track, removed assets from project, re-imported m2v and aif, made new track and connections
- Changed track order in project outline (a long shot!)
- Set global return to the first play track (and set individual returns)
- Imported 2sec black, set this as first play, then end jump to original intro
- Added 5x 2sec tracks cascading from start to intro in an attempt to displace the file location of the offending track and try to create same issue but with a different track appearing, still got the same (longest) track
- Deleted offending track, removed all traces from project, deleted assets from Finder and re-encoded fresh from FCP timeline
- Changed asset file names as 3 track assets including the first play and offending track shared 1st 5 characters the same, relinked assets
- Swapped menu button track targets again to displace offending track's position in the image, no change
Can anyone suggest what else we might try? What is making the DVD players think this is a special track and ignore the first play command?
Is it anything to do with the last ProApp or MacOS update?
Basically a small orchard Mac OS X (10.4.7) 9 Machines on Network
Basically a small orchard Mac OS X (10.4.7) 9 Machines on Network

Stop Stop will play Title 1 on the disc. Thats all there is to it.
In the Outline tab you need to be in the By VTS view (if you are using dvdsp 4) and not By Type. Click the little <-> (icon) in the top right of the Tab to toggle between views or drag the right side of the Tab to reveal both at the same time.
Whatever you want to play after the Stop Stop should be the Track in VTS 1. So this could be the Warning, a black bit of vid that jumps to a script, its upto you! The normal thing to do is to have Title 1 as the main show but its upto you as i said.
FWIW, often authors will disable all UOPs, even Stop, on the warnings & logos so users cant quickly press Stop Stop to skip all that stuff and begin watching the movie,
-Jake

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> Hello--I am an architecture student and I am having
problems with my Flash
> website. I have uploaded my half-done website on
>
http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/msgoyak/WORLD_SHARED/
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> to the
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> and
> you can actually see it flash through on-screen. I just
want ithese
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script that
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> be applied or would it be easier to create new flash
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> link?
>
> Hopefully someone can help m after viewing the website
itself.
> I have version 7 MX 2004.
> Thank you if you can provide any feedback!!!!!!
Hopefully this frustration
> thing can be corrected.
>
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