Problems with mavericks dvd player

Has anyone noticed that dvd scripting is poorly implemented in Mavericks?
I have a dvd with a nested script to randomly select from among 48 tracks on a dvd.
Since that exceeds script length limitations, I had to break the script down into 3 parts:
1. A master script which decides whether to choose script 1 (items 1-24) or Script 2 (items 25-48)
2. Script 1 which chooses from among tracks 1-24
3. Script 2 which chooses from among tracks 25-48.
Each track has the jump to set to the master script.
This used to run fine under 10.8.6 and it runs find on a normal dvd player.
Problem is: it doesn't run under Mavericks. The Mavericks dvd player simply ignores the master script after the first iteration and once it selects script one or script 2 it only will play back tracks from whichever script it selected the first time.
This is a huge defect.
I've tried adding a line to my code at the beginning of each script to reset the variable controlled by the master script to 0 (I use 1 or 2 to decide which script to choose). It seems to be ignoring the jump command of the tracks to return to the master script and will only return to the script which controls its playback.
Any hope Apple that you will fix this?
Keith

Too bad I have to reply to myself in order to correct something:
It seems the compiled DVD doesn't run under 10.8.6 either, but it runs FINE on a real dvd, runs fine in simulate mode in DVD Studio Pro. But for some reason even though DVDs are restricted to 124 lines of code, DVD studio Pro refuses to compile my script when I make it a mere 50 lines long. Anyone have a solution for that? I really need this to run from a harddrive so I can automate the playback. I'm trying anything I can to rewrite the script to conform to the limitations of the Apple DVD player though those are not stated clearly anywhere I can find. Does anyone know those limitations?

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