IBooks or iBook Author opening page setting

During the testing phase the book has been installed on the iPad using 'Preview'. In this mode the book always opens on the iPad with the page that was open in iBooks Author when starting the 'Preview' process.
I am exporting the book with the 'Book Title' as the active selection on the assumption that you want this to be the startup page.
The book has an Intro Media Video mp4v format plays in Preview mode without any issues.
In iBooks on the iPad [first generation] I am deleting all versions of the book and previews before installing the actual exported *.ibook version.
The issue is for what ever reason the book does not open with the Intro Media Video perhaps it has some memory as to the last page that was opened
for that book.
Is this issue resolved with a setting and if so what is the magic? Cheers Ant..

Worked on this problem for the best part of half a day. It was only resolved after I restored the iPad to factory settings and re-installed iBooks which in the scheme of things appears to be a bit drastic. Cheers Ant..

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