Merging Video Clips

I'm putting together a DVD for my daughter's cheer leading team. Here's the issue I'm having and I'll break it down, to hopefully give you a good understanding of what's going on.
When I select "Games" from the main menu, it opens the next menu (no problems here), that has a break down of "October's Games", "November's Games", etc.
When I choose "October's Games" (no problems here either), it shows the four games they cheered at.
My problem starts here. When I play "Week 1" it runs through with no problem, but at the end, it goes back to the "October's Games" menu and I have to manually select "Week 2", to watch it.
While playing "Week One", if I try to skip to "Week 3", it takes me back to the "October's Games" menu again and I have to manually select it.
What I'd like it to do, is play straight through all four weeks and have the ability to toggle back and forth, without taking me back to the main menu each time.
Can somebody help me out here? Thanks for your time.
Message was edited by: emac800

Hi
What I'd like it to do, is play straight through all four weeks and have the ability to toggle back and forth, without taking me back to the main menu each time.
I would make one chronological movie
• add chapters in each partition (NO Chapter Mark at the very beginning
- iDVD don't like this - it will do it by it self)
Then when playing on a DVD-player - use the remote and the right and left arrow key - move
to next or previous Chapter.
If You want them to play individually and go back to menu - You have to add them as individual movies.
(and that minimize the amount that can be stored on the DVD to 50%)
Yours Bengt W

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