Play Movie starts at chapter 2

Using the "bands" theme, I exported my movie from iMovie 06 with chapters to iDVD 08. All the chapters come across just fine, but when i hit "play movie" it starts the show at chapter 2 (not chapter 1)
You can see chapter one from the scene selection page, and if you hit the back button on the DVD player you can still get to see chapter one, but otherwise it defaults to playing back from chapter 2. GR! I re-saved my iMovie after cueing the film to the beginning, but still the above behavior stands.
In the "dvd map" view, the thumbnail shown for "play movie" IS chapter 1, but when you click it, it starts at chapter 2.
help?

Just a thought.....did you create a chapter 1 marker yourself? If so, go back to iMovie and delete it. iDVD creates the first chapter, naming it 'Beginning.' You can change the name on the scene selection menu. If you put in your own first chapter marker, you can confuse iDVD. When you reopen iDVD, you should get the 'assets have changed' message, and you will need to let iDVD re-encode your movie.

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