Incorrect chapter playback after DVD burn

Hi, I'd appreciate some help with solving this issue. Thanks.
I created a movie using iMovie 6.0.3 on my older PowerBook G4. I burned 2 DVDs using iDVD 7.0.4 and everything was perfect. A week later I wanted to burn more DVDs of the same movie using iDVD without changing anything! But when I play the movie after it was burned it starts playing from Chapter 5 (I have 10 chapters in the movie)!
Why would it do that?
I didn't change any settings anywhere. I checked the project in iMovie and everything looked right. I also checked the DVD Map and I think all was right there too. The burned DVD will play from the beginning only if I click on Chapter 1.
Thank you,

Thank you very much! Problem resolved.
I had my movie already saved up on iDisc as a QuickTime file (with all chapters already marked). I downloaded it to my MacBook Pro then imported it to iDVD and burned from there with no problems.
This time I wasn't getting the message "Update or Cancel" after returning to iDVD for some more burning later, where iMovie 6 on my older PowerBook G4 was giving me that message and even when pressing the "Cancel" button it would still not allow me to burn the DVD without the updates.
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