How to make transparent buttons in Encore CS6?

Hello all ~
I'm making a DVD for a corporate conference.  I would like to use the company's logo for the navigation button on the DVD.  There will be text indicating the menus, then the “logo button” will navigate to the text so you can select the menu you want. What I would like is this:
Button State 1 (static) – logo button would be completely transparent with no highlight.
Button State 2 (selected) – logo button would be visible with no highlight
Button State 3 (clicked) – logo  button would flash with a highlighted color then go to the selected menu.
I have scoured the interwebs to figure out a way to accomplish this, and have had no luck.  I have used archaic nomenclature  (+, =1, =2), have fiddled with Menu Color Sets, and have even bowed down to Adobe’s infamous and unstoppable motto of  “when trying to do anything with our software, it is going to take 12 utterly complex steps when really it should be simple” by trying to edit the button menu in Photoshop then round-tripping back to Encore. But alas all of this has been to no avail.
If anyone can help me with this, I would be most grateful.  I have no doubt that it will happen, as you guys have been awesome in the past in solving these mysteries.
Thanks much,
SM

Hope this thread gets answered at some point so it can help someone else in the same situation.
The following is not really a response to the request to add an actual image as a highlight, but one method that will work for some situations. This uses multiple layers, one color per layer, to create a multicolor highlight.
I took part of one of our gallery logos, which is a multi-layer Illustrator file.
In Illustrator, I re-combined layers to create 3 layers (the red, the black, and the eye) and exported as PSD. So, from Encore, edit the menu in Photoshop, and we see the 3 layers stacked with the "eye" on top and the black markings over the red.
Each layer is a "single" highlight color layer. They are assigned,  however, to different highlight prefixes (=1, =2, =3), so we can control the color using the Encore menu layer set.
In Encore, we set the menu properties for Color Set to "Menu Default" (not Automatic) and edit the menu color set. You can also save a custom menu color set.
The 1, 2, 3 correspond to the =1, =2, etc in the menu layers. You can set the color here. It does not matter what the color was in Photoshop. The logo does not appear in the "normal state" because all the opacities are set to 0%. It appears in the selected state with the opacity set to 47%. And appears 100% when activated. All buttons are set to Highlight Group 1, so group 2 is ignored.
So normal:
Selected:
and Activated:

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