IDVD menu music

Hello
Hope you can help me out here
After having set up my menus, the theme music was replaced by the audio track from one of the movies I have on the DVD. Doesn't work well with the particular movie it picked, though.
How can I choose which specific movie, I want to use the audio from?
And how do I go back to using the theme music again?
Mads

Hej Mads!
In iMovie 6 you highlight the clip, go the Advanced menu, and click on extract audio. This turns down the volume on that clip to zero and at the same time copies the audio to another audio track, where it can be edited or copies just like a video clip.
In iMovie 9 (which I refuse to use!) you, err, go to the Help menu and ask!
iMovie 9 tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
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