Set start point in movie buttons?

Is there any way to set the starting point of a movie (scene) button with any degree of accuracy? Apple's stupid sliders are about as elegant as using a twig as a screwdriver and it's driving me nuts. Moving the slider even a single pixel moves the video forward/backward 30-45 seconds, which is completely unacceptable.

I tried that, but unfortunately iDVD isn't understanding what I want to do.
Here's what I did: In iMovie, I cropped a much smaller segment of my movie (about 35 seconds), starting the crop at the point where I wanted. I exported this clip out of iMovie as a DV file (saved on my desktop). In iDVD, I went to the appropriate "scene selection" page and highlighted the button for which I wanted to set the video. I then dragged my DV file from my desktop onto the video area in the button.
What I EXPECTED to happen is, I EXPECTED the video in the button to change to the video in the file I dragged in, while clicking on that button would bring me to the appropriate chapter in my movie.
What ACTUALLY happened is iDVD created an entirely new button which, when clicked on, plays the cropped DV file that I originally created.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.

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