Pausing @ Chapter Marker Won't Work.

I read on these boards how to create a DVD where playback pauses at a chapter marker for a unique DVD I need to create. While this worked great in Simulator, when I burned a DVD and played it both a PC laptop and my Desktop G5, the DVD paused at every FRAME. I was only able to advance by hitting the play button and going to the next frame of the video. Not what I was hoping for. (The final DVD will be running from a computer.)
Does anyone have any thoughts on what I need to do? Currently I am selecting the Chapter Maker and going to Playback Options: Pause: Infinite: Pause after each VOBU is checked.
thanks in advance.

Uncheck the pause at each VOBU... this is a very small unit in the structure of a DVD and correlates to a single Group of Pictures (GOP), not the marker, which is a cell based item. A cell contains any number of VOBUs. Your 'infinite' pause should be enough.
Have a look here:
http://www.mpucoder.com/DVD/vobov.html

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It sounds like you are saying that "same exact spot" means the spot where the marker is moved to and not the same exact splace on the timeline, and it looks that way based on the rest of your post(?)
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
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