Motion Menu - video thumbnail change?

I have a load of motion menus on a Blu-Ray project which play part of the scene that they link to. I was wondering if it was possible to change just one of the video thumbnail previews to another video? I can't seem to find any setting or anything online about it. I know you can choose any video for the menu background video, but this is for one of the scene selection thumbnails.
Here's a picture:
Any help appreciated! Thank you

Ok so that works perfectly, but now a new problem has come up. Basically, I created all my highlights in Photoshop so they weren't the bad highlights (yellows etc) like Adobe has by default. They were all working fine, like this:
It's un-rendered but you can see the highlight is a thicker white box around it which looks nice.
But, for some reason, scene selection menu 1 has decided it doesn't like these highlights and has reverted to "Group 1" of button highlights like this:
I have no idea how to revert this and I noticed that if you click on a button, the "highlight" drop down now has "group 1" or "group 2" but for every other menu the box is grayed out and just says "--".
Do you possibly know how to revert this? It's really annoying me now, almost everything was perfect.

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