Menus Done in Photoshop Look Junky

My client gave me some menus that he had done in Photoshop by some print designers.
When I was authoring the DVD, my instincts told me the menus would look terrible and once done...they do. There are jaggies/stairsteps all over the place on the type and some icon art they have created. The actual overlays actually look OK, its the base type on the background that looks bad.
Photoshop is not my forte...what do I tell these guys to do to the menu art so the type is smooth?

Thanks for the input...BUT-
Title safe is not the problem (I already took care of that one with them).
I'll lay it out...The PS file for teh mene has two layers...the background and the overlay. The overlay (for the button colors in the three selection states) is essentially fine.
It's aliasing a little but I can live with it.
The problem is the base layer in the PS File. It includes the title of the section, the chapter names and some little icon graphics. This is where the problem lies. All the type in this layer (which I am sure was done in separate layers for each type element and then flattened) is aliasing...badly.
The font size and style are marginally acceptable for TV...not what I would have picked but OK, so jacking up the size or using another font is not the solution.
Seems like they did not anti alias the type before the flattened the base layer or something like that. Am I on the right track here or is it something else.
MS

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