Premiere Elements 7: movie 16:9,menu 4:3

Using Adobe Premiere Elements 7 I have burned a 16:9 movie including menu's to DVD to a folder. When I play the DVD on a software player, or when I burn the contents of the Video_TS folder to a DVD and play it on a TV then the movie is played in 16:9 format but the menu's are in 4:3! In the preview in PE the menu's are in 16:9. The movie was recorded in AVCHD 16:9 and must be burned to a DVD-5. In the Share menu I selected PAL_Widescreen_DolbyDVD. I also tried PAL_DolbyDVD but then also the movie is in 4:3 which sounds logic to me. How can I get those menu's in 16:9?
I remember once I burned the DVD directly from PE 7 to a DVD-5 and then it was OK. Don't know the settings anymore. But that is not an option anymore because my DVD burner is not recognised anymore by PE (that's another problem but not that important).

I'm afraid both answers did not solve the problem. I uninstalled Nero, restarted the computer but all stayed the same. I really cannot imagine this could also solve the 4:3 menu problem.
Desperate as I was I created a new project and there the problem was over (both of them). Reloading the old project "solved" the burning problem (it suddenly found my DVD burner) but not the 4:3 menu problem. So I installed the second DVD with all the menu's, just selected another one and then the problem was over! Also when I turned back to the original menu. So in some way it has "reset" the menu. Hopefully this can help other persons who have the same problem. Thanks for your answers!!

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I'm trying to put a movie together using JPG's and WMV movies. I have about 450 JPG's that I made all 720 width by using PS7, I let PS7 pick the hight. The movies came from my Sony Handycam HD camera and I used the Sony software to make them into wmv movies. I put them on my hard drive. Why did I use wmv - for some reason, when I used the Sony software and downloaded the movies to MPG, the sound did not come with them. As I said before, PE7 could not handle all my JPG's and movies (total of about 4 hours worth). I was hoping to put a 4 hr movie on a dual layer DVD. Forget that. I couldn't even put a 2 hr movie together. PE7 sometimes just went away on the screen, or I received a C++ error, or memory getting low when I still had 750MB's of memory left and 100GB left on my hard drive and just either froze or disappeared from my screen. I couldn't even move the movie bar too much without PE7 crashing. I found that as I worked in PE7, trying to put a 2 hr movie together, l would have to load about 10 JPG's, do a save, then render them, do a save, bring in about 5 movies, do a save, render those. I kept doing this for days, but as I got about 1 hr worth of movie, PE7 would crash all the time. I finally got 1 hr and 50 minutes all saved and rendered with all my markers, etc. Ready to go right. Wrong. When I tried to burn, the encoding right before the burn would blow up all the time and I couldn't burn the DVD. Days and days of trying to produce a movie and PE7 would just blow up everytime.
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OS -XP with SP3
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About 1600 MB left of RAM to work with
This system exceeds PE7 requirements but it is not enough.
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Continue to load 5-10 jpgs, save them, render them, load 5-10 short movies, save the project, render the project and save the project. Don't go to long without rendering and saving your project. Continue until you get to about 20-30 minutes worth of movie in your project. Do NOT put any markers in because they will be lost when you do continue to do what I did to create a 4 hr movie. You will do them later. Now go to File and export to a Movie. This will put it in AVI format. Once it is saved, start another new project. Start it where you left off and do the same thing again and again until you have all your AVI movies. I ended up with 5 avi movies. Now start your last new project. Get Media (grab each avi file you saved). Put them in order. Now you can put in your markers, title, etc. and shouldn't have memory problems. You're ready to burn. It worked. I finally have a 4 hr movie through PE7 with the system I have above. I forgot to say, I also run a program called FreeRam XP Pro (free shareware). Before starting my burn, I would use FreeRam XP Pro to free up memory. Many times after a render and save, I would use FreeRam XP Pro to free up memory.
I wish Adobe would let everyone know how PE7 really works. You would think by the ads, that my system would work properly. I hate to see how PE7 will work doing HD type movies from my camcorder. I will have to experiment with that one later. Right now, I am tired of working with PE7 over the last 2 weeks.
Again, thanks everyone for helping out here. I hope this helps some others that are frustrated with PE7.

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