Movie Files to behave as Chapters - Help

Hello,
I am facing a problem with FC and iDVD and I hope you could help me to figure out a solution.
How can I get my individual movie files to play continuously one after another as if they were chapters in iDVD?
I don’t want to build up a “longer than life” timeline with chapter markers to be then exported and sent to iDVD, which I believe would definitely work. I rather do my chapters as individual “sequencies” or projects that will end up being individual movie files. However, when I place those in a iDVD submenu and click on them, they play but do not do it one after another. In other words, once the chapter you clicked on ends, it won’t go up to the next one but will stop and take you back to the submenu screen.
Nero 6.0 has always allowed me to do that. I would just import the video files and Nero would recognized them as chapters. There’s got to be a way to do this with iDVD. Help please,
Thanks,
Message was edited by: Juan Huerta
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Does this help?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1404748&tstart=50

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