Strange Navigation Issues After Using Pop-up Menu

I have a Blu-ray project I'm working on. It's 1920x1080 resolution.
I have a main menu and then seven sub-menus as chapter-selection menus for three different videos.
The Main Menu has four buttons. Button one is a highlights video, button two takes the user to the first of three chapter-selection menus for the first video. Button three takes the user to the first of two chapter-selection menus for the second video and button four takes the user to the first of two chapter-selection menus for the third video. I have transitions from the main menu to each of the three chapter-selection menus and back from any of the seven chapter-selection menus to the main menu.
I also have a pop-up menu with the same four buttons on it as the main menu, except that the top button takes you to the main menu rather than playing the highlights video.
The problem I have is that all of the navagition works fine when moving around the menus, unless you open the pop-up menu during a video and navigate to one of the chapter-selection menus. When you do this, it works. It goes to the first page of the chapter-selection menu for any of the three videos, but if you then go to the main menu from there (each chapter-selection menu has a "back to main menu" button on it), it will play the transition, but then jump you to one of the chapter-selection menus for the video who's chapter-selection menu you were just on.
For example: If I play the highlights video and while it's playing I open the pop-up menu and choose Video 3, it will take me to the first chapter-selection menu for Video 3. If, once that menu comes up, I then scroll down to the "Back to Main Menu" button on that page and choose it, the transition from that menu to the Main Menu will play, but after it finishes, the Blu-ray will jump to the last chapter-selection menu page for Video 3. If I then navigate back to menu page 1 of the chapter-selection menus for Video 3 and choose the exact same "Back to Main Menu" button, the transition will play again and this time the Main Menu will open up.
The links for all of the menu buttons are correct, I've check them numerous times. It just seems that they get screwed up after you've navigated somewhere from the pop-up menu.
Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to try to explain it as best as possible.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Hey Shark. I read your explanation of what's happening, but I am not sure why you are having that weird navigation issue. There are a lot of weird anomalies that happen with Encore authored blu-rays, and things that just don't work that really should. For the price, it does the job, but there are limitations.
Last year when I started using it for blu-ray authoring, there were non-stop road blocks and things to overcome.
Check out the documented misery. It gets better at the end .
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3446748#3446748

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