Scene Selection False Start

Hi there,
I'm currently working on the DVD for a feature length film. The DVD includes working video special features and I'm trying to install a scene selection menu now. Unfortunately when I press a button corresponding to a chapter it plays maybe the first frame before returning me to my scene selection menu. The same thing happens when I try to "Preview From Here" on a specific chapter, when it is right clicked on the timeline. The chapters have no overrivdes or end actions attached to them. Any idea how to solve this problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Andrew

It works now. I clicked the Preview DVD playback triangle button (as I had done before) and waited for the main menu to appear. After mousing over the words "Scene Selection" the yellow circle was adjacent to scene selection I then clicked on the words "Scene Selection" and was taken to the scene selection menu showing the 3 scenes I had set up.
My mistake before was in clicking on the yellow filled-in circle. Nothing happens.
In design mode (with the four submode buttons shown) navigation is not predictable.
Thanks for your help.

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