No "Play All or Scene Selection" available. Sound also missing.

Last week I burned several DVD's successfully. I was prompted that there was an update to 7.0.4 available, so I updated. Ever since then, I have been unsuccessful at adding a "Scene Selection" or hearing the Revolution music that usually plays while you make your selection. Nothing else had changed.
I went back to look at previous update you could download that fixed the "scene" issue, but when I try to download it, it says "unnecessary". When I try to download any of the previous IDVD updates, it simply won't. It says IDVD is not in the Applications file. When I look in the Applications file, I see it is indeed there.
Is there any way to UNINSTALL a previous download, and reload? It was working fine before. Now I can't get it to do anything right. This has been driving me nuts for days now.
Thanks for any help and happy thoughts you can give me.
kate

I have same problem. In test mode, clicking on each chapter starts a relevant time in the main movie. But on a burned project only first chapter works, other just loop but when clicked on, nothing happens. Any help around?
Where can I download IDVD06?

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I just saw this post and wanted to ask you a question about stories before I set up my project.
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I am not making myself clear, but I appreciate the responses so far.
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