Pauses at chapter points

When playing back my DVD, i get slight pauses at some (but not all) of the encore chapter points (these were created in Premiere CS3, which output an .m2v). After a pause occurs, if i back up and play through the chapter point again, it plays seamlessly. The Encore project only has one timeline. I have some menus which allow the user to start playback at various scenes in the timeline, and playback continues to the end of the timeline. there are no end actions on any of the chapter.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Ken Fong

So you should NOT have END actions set on the Chapter points, to play the whole timeline from Chapter 1, in Play Movie button.
So how do we use the Chapters, when used individually?
Can you set different end actions in a Play List, than in a sub menu for playing certain chapters on their own?
So end actions on the sub menu, do not effect the timeline's chapters, so allowing continuous play from the main menu AND separate play in other sub menus?

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