No time display on DVD player

I have never had this problem in three y ears and I am so far stumped. Read the manual, looked in this forum, overlooked all my preferences and triple checked my project settings. here is the issue
I see no time display or chapter display on my DVD player when I test my DVD. I was wondering if this could be an issue in the encoding process. I did not compress the files, I was given the DVD authoring job after the editor left, and the original media was lost on a melted drive so I am told. THe only way I could do the job was to rip the elemental streams from a test DVD and use those to create a new DVDSP project. Did the editor screw something up in the compression? Or am I screwing something up in the authoring?
In the past I have been know to overlook something obvious, so please, any input is welcome, even if you think, "he must have done that. . ." don't be so sure. . .
Just to clarify, my Toshiba DVD player shows a blank time display and only tells me what title I am in, but not which chapter. Apple DVD player shows both. And the Toshiba shows both with every other DVD I put in there.
Where do I look. . .
Thanks,
Matt

Never mind, found it in another thread. Must have done a poor search last time.
(Related to next and previous jump) Like I said, I sometimes miss the obvious...

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