Making an idiot proof presentation DVD with no visible menu

I was asked by a client to deliver final video content on a DVD. It was for a presentation, and I asked if they wanted a menu or if they wanted the content to just play when the disc was inserted in the DVD player. They wanted the ability to have the DVD cued up and then initiate playback when desired. They asked for a "menu" where the screen was simply black, and then they wanted the video content to simply start from black when they hit "play" or "enter."
I wanted to make sure this thing was "idiot proof." I didn't want them to be pressing "enter" and have nothing happen, so I made a button that was the size of the full screen. There was no text and no graphics. Just a giant button zone that was the full width and height of the menu area. This may not have been necessary, but if they were playing this back on a computer and using a mouse to navigate, I wanted the entire screen to be "active." Feel free to let me know if this is silly. With the button selected, I went into the "Colors" tab in the Inspector. I set the "Normal," "Selected," and "Activated" colors all to black and all to 15% opacity. My goal was to have the menu screen completely black with no evidence of anything, and then no indication of anything (color, text, or otherwise) when hitting "play" or "enter" so that the video would just start playing.
"Simulate" gave me the impression that I had achieved the desired result, but unfortunately, when watching the final, burned DVD on a player, there was a grey flash when pressing the "play" (or "enter") button on the remote.
Any thoughts as to why this would be? But really... my main question is "how do I achieve the result I want?" I'm open to setting this up in a completely different way, so you're welcome to tell me that my attempt was flawed from the get-go. My specialty is After Effects, so I'm a relative newbie when it comes to DVD Studio Pro. I may need to be schooled in a serious way.
Thanks.

I'm a little late, but thank you for answering my question. "The first button on a menu is always in the selected state no matter what," is exactly the kind of basic, fundamental type of information that I was lacking. I ended up making one button which I tagged as "invisible," and that's exactly what I needed.
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post. Much appreciated.

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