Seamless Transitions in CS5.5?

Hi,
I've looked and seen that there were different answers on this topic from a few years ago but couldn't really tell from the threads how they had been resolved.
I have the Master Collection CS 5.5. I was recently making a DVD for a client and what was wanted was a short animation prior to the menu buttons popping on. First I simply created the entire animation in AE and then I exported the animation in two parts: the first 20 second animation and then the background.
I created a timeline for the first 20 second part and set this to first play. I then placed the remaining 40 second background as the Audio and Video background for the menu.
The problem is that there is a 2 second lag when it jumps from the first play to the menu. I tried just having the entire animation as the background for the menu but the selection boxes around the default button show up right away and this is not wanted.
Am I missing a very simple work-around here?
Thanks for any help and sorry that I couldn't figure it out from the earlier posts.
Best,
Darius

Am I missing a very simple work-around here?
First be sure you are burning a test to check for pauses.
Second, you don't make the intro piece its own timeline:
Here's encore help:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSA5513911-0AD1-440c-BDAD-2E0E806B425E.html
Here's an adobe tutorial on using AE for EN menus:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0258
From the After Effects help:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7e45 a.html
Here is the tutorial page on Jon Geddes':
http://www.precomposed.com/tutorials/
Theses are all (probably) CS5, but the principle is the same. Make a single movie in AE, set a loop point in Encore.

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