Make iDVD Selection Menu into Main Menu

Please excuse me if this is a simple-minded question, but I have not found a solution yet.
I have a .mov file that I want to burn to DVD. It has 4 chapters - okay, okay, so they're cartoons; who doesn't want some favorite cartoons around? Anyway, the start of each cartoon in the .mov file is marked with a Chapter Marker (created via FCE.) When the .mov file is imported into iDVD 5.0.1, iDVD IMMEDIATELY creates a Main Menu page containing "Play / Submenu" and the Submenu screen containing the 4 cartoons. (And yes, they're Roadrunner vs. Wile E. Coyote, so there!)
What I want to do is ELIMINATE the current "Main" Menu page, and instead have the "Submenu" containing the links to the 4 cartoons BE the actual "Main Menu." Thus when the DVD is inserted into a player, the "Main Menu" shows the names of the 4 cartoons.
In the "structure" representation, I have tried dragging the Submenu icon over the Main menu icon; deleting the "Main Menu" icon"; dragging the first cartoon icon over the Main Menu. Nothing works.
I also have iDVD 7.0.4 on the MacMini, if there is a solution there. Any suggestions?

A million thanks for your solution.
And for others who have lots of VHS tapes that are slowly turning into Packing Material, here is a strategy:
Easy-VHS-To-DVD -> Basic Toast (included with EV2D) -> Disc Image -> MPEGStreamclip(Open_DVD:TSVideo) -> Quicktime file (will avoid rendering in FCE) -> iMovie or FCE -> iDVD.
I know, I know, it sounds like a LOT of work, but it is actually extremely easy. The slowest part is the EV2D capture (which is done in real time.) Everything else consists of: 1.Select parameters. 2.Go do something else for 20-30-40 minutes. You will end up with a (semi-permanent) DVD of a VHS that is decomposing day-by-day.
And as noted above: Please do not break copyright by making copies of VHS tapes that you do not own. But if you BOUGHT 'Em, you OWN 'Em.

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I don't know of an automated way for it to figure out how many submenus you have, either. Which is why I put the maximum that I'll have on each menu for the template. It's much faster and easier to delete the extras on each new DVD than to try to line up new buttons and/or images consistently each time.

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I'm trying to create a DVD with a particular theme. Everything works fine until I try the Scene Select button in the Preview Mode. When the Scene Selection menu comes up it is using a theme from a previous project. I am unable to change this to the theme being used in the first menu for this project.
How can I cancel the old project theme out of the Scene Selection menu?
Or how can I change it once I've started a project using a particular theme?
Thanks for any help you can give!

If you go to the main menu and then Advanced/Apply Theme To Project, it won't do that? If not:
This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.

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