PROJECTOR Theme no longer has Drop Zone?

iDVD 5.0.1
I used this earlier in the year to burn a DVD with the PROJECTOR theme (old theme) and there was a Drop Zone on the main menu to put a pic in the Movie Screen.
I pulled out the old DVD I made and there it is.
Now when I try to use the PROJECTOR theme on a new Project, I don't get a Drop Zone for the Movie Screen (?)
What happened?
All the other Themes still have their Drop Zones.

Are you sure?
Have you tried double clicking on the screen in the theme? That should bring up both visual and audio drop zones.
If that fails, try deleting iDVD's preference file (close iDVD first):
Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist
then open iDVD again. Does it work now?

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