Toast 7 DVD menu problem

When I create a DVD with a menu using Toast 7, it works perfectly on several DVD players, but not on my LG DR7800 DVD recorder. It plays OK, but there's no indicator on the menu to show which item you're currently highlighting. You have to navigate in the dark. Once again, these discs work perfectly well on other DVD players - it's only on the LG DVD recorder this problem occurs. Can anyone shed any light on it?
PS: LG's customer 'support' department have abandoned me. It seems any problem they can't immediately recognise is answered with "we can't help you". Rest assured I won't buy their goods again...

Not every DVD set top player works identically or as well with DVD recordable technology.
It's simple the nature of recordable discs.
You are trying to play a disc on a LG that is primarily designed to record.
best wishes
David
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I will be very happy if someone could give me a clue...

There were several Menu Sets in PrE 9, that did not work properly, when adding a custom background image. One valued contributor, A T Romano, did a full test, and listed each "problem" Menu Set. His report is in a thread, similar to yours on the Menu Sets.
It appears that Adobe corrected those Menu Sets in PrE 10, or at least I have not read of the issue with the latest version. I never did find out why some of those Library Menu Sets (they are just PSD's after all), did not work. It also seems that ATR found a workaround for those, but I cannot recall the details now. This is one of those THREADS, with ATR's comments, and there are several others too.
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KChen:
I'm a little confused about what you mean with "DVD
MENU" . . . but the answer is yes, you can use Toast
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