Next Chapter button in Story...

Here's a brief description of my project:
- Dance Competition with 10 events (6 dances per event)
- Main Menu page with "Play Movie" & "Chapters" buttons
- Chapters page with 10 event buttons
I want this movie to act like those from the studios. In other words, if I simply "Play Movie" then hit the remote Menu at any time, it takes me back to the Chapter Menu. But if I play a particular event chapter from the Chapters page and then hit the remote Menu it takes me back to that particular chapter page and the event chapter I just played is highlighted. Make sense?
So I made this happen by creating 10 stories (each containing the particular event's 6 chapter marks). But if you play a particular chapter event from the chapter page, it defaults back to the main menu at the end of each story. I don't want that. I want the movie to continue, just like a regular movie would. So I put an end jump on each story that takes you to the next story. Fixed... not quite.
It does take you to the next story if you let it play to the end, but if you hit skip chapter during the last chapter mark of each stroy, NOTHING happens. You have to let the last chapter mark play through to get to the next story.
Is there a way to get around this?
Am I making things harder on myself than they need to be?
Working in DVDSP 3
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your reply, but it doesn't really answer my questions, or am I missing something.
Yes, the fact that you originally said "if I simply Play Movie then hit the remote Menu at any time, it takes me back to the Chapter Menu." (my emphasis)
Now if you meant instead Main Menu, then yes, my answer would be different.
You can have both, Stories is still not the correct solution in my opinion.
I'll refer you to this recent thread:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68bd01ef
Bottom line is you need scripting to remember both the menu AND the button you came from, and then to use that info to return to the proper menu/button when you push the Menu button.
The nice thing about the way I described originally? No scripting.
I guess maybe if you jump to the track itself via the Main Menu, and set the track to jump to Main Menu from the Menu key, and then make a story out of all the chapters of the track, and set the story's "chapter markers" as I described above, and access the story from the chapter menu, that could do it without scripting. But I've always used scripting.

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