Help with fast DVD creation?

I have been going through the lynda training and not finding my answer on my problems. I have FCP3 and am buidling a DVD. Here are my steps. I have a menu which I drop a m2v video and an ac3 file and set as my opening - first play. From there I clicked new menu and called it menu 1. I dropped in a m2v file and added buttoms. I them created for tracks and added my content. I set the end jump of the first play menu to go to menu one. The 4 buttons in menu one all go to my tracks which I have an end jump back to the menu on or main menu.
Problem. one the remote, I can navigate the buttons and get to tracks, I can also end jump from tracks to get back to the menu, but I can't get fast forward or rewind to work on the remote. I also can't get the title and menu buttons to work properly. The title button always comes back to first play. i have all the buttons disabled for each track, but I can get a button on the remote programmed to come back to the menu at any time. I need to get better navigation of my DVD via remote and it wont work. I want to go to tracks, tracks to the main menu at any time, fast forward and rewind. I do have pause and play.
Can anyone walk me through the basics of an opening menu, a main mene and four tracks with some decent navigation. Again the lynda videos talk about layered menues and not regular menus.
I appreciate any help or even a link to a quick tutorial that will walk me through this. I know how to get my DVD set up and burned, but can't get the buttons on the remote to do the basics.
Cheers.

In DVDSP the 'Title' menu is the first one you made... unless you specify otherwise in the property inspector.
What is the first menu for? If it isn't actually a menu, use a track... then your first menu will in fact be your first (and Title) menu. Drop your M2V and AC3 file into a track, set the end jump to the menu and set the disc 'first play' as the track.
Now, in your menu set the buttons to the tracks as you have done. It's not clear whether you've set any chapter markers in your tracks, or where you are not seeing the ff/rw functionality - in simulator?
Set the menu call for each track to go to the menu and set the end jump for the tracks to go to the menu as well.
Incidentally, you don't need four tracks - one would do - and you can use stories to demarcate the different sections. Stories can also have menu calls set up too...

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Sorry, I'm not sure about the motion menus. I avoid those whenever possible. But you might click on the menu in the storyline tab (whatever it's called -- the hierarchical view with the disc, tracks, slideshows, etc.) and look at the properties and see if there's anything you have to enable specifically for motion. And be sure the motion button is on on the main display/preview area, but it sounds like you already know how that works.
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http://www.redhavoc.co.uk/stuff/menu.jpg
I think it is obvious that when a button is hovered over, I want it to glow red, and the image to the right will change to match the respective button.
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Next, the graphical work is all in Photoshop.
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