Last track of 8 doesn't play

Hi,
I have a DVDSP project with a 7GB large video clip which I divided into 8 chapters. When I run the simulation I can access all 8 chapters easily via the menu I created. However, when I create the disk image (Dual Layer) to test the final burn, I can't access the 8th chapter. When I click on the video in the menu, the menu crashes and I have to press the menu button again to get back. When I try to skip to the next chapter from chapter 7, the Apple DVD player displays "Chapter 8" at the top left corner, but nothing happens.
I tried to move the chapter marker a little bit to see if it has any effect, but it doesn't. I can't get the last chapter to play.
Should I try to move the breakpoint? How would the breakpoint have any influence on the last chapter?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Marc

I can emulate the project clicking on the "simulate" button. This works.
When I format and "burn" the project to a .img file and mount the DVD, everything works fine, except for the last track. When I select "advanced burn" I make sure that the Dual layer radio button is selected.
In order to get a breakpoint I needed to create a manual one as the automatic faeture didn't work.
The .img file is almost 7GB large, so I don't think I have been running out of space.
I might reduce my project by one chapter, but that would require me to render the movie file again in FCP and that will take 4 hours or so, and then I have to re-create the DVDSP project again, which I would like to avoid.
Marc

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