Remote Control Menu Button

Starting from the top, I have a 1st play title menu (A) with 4 buttons that are targeted to 4 other menus (B) – each of which, have multiple motion buttons leading to individual clips (C).
I would like to be able to click on the Remote Control Menu button anywhere within the DVD and have it return to the 1st play title menu (A). In the Disc Inspector, I have set the “Remote Control” pull down menu to the 1st play title menu (A).
I can achieve what I want by clicking on the Remote Control “Title” button but not the “Menu” button. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Sorry - I made an assumption that you were not able to go fro a track to the title menu... what you are asking is to go from a menu to the title menu by using the ;menu' key.
Sadly, it won't be possible - the Menu key is designed to move only between tracks and menus. If you are in a track it will take you to a menu, once there, pressing it again willr eturn you to the track.
You need to use the 'return' key to traverse through the menus, but it isn't a robust implementation in DVDSP.
Therefore, the only way to accomplish what you want is to use the Title key on the remote control when in a menu... unless you add a button to each sub menu that jumps to the title menu.

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1. I can have the button overlay rectangle appear
later in the menu video clip timeline - when the
actual text arrives?
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