Video Thumbnails Activate Uncommanded When Highlighted

I have created a PAL DVD project using DVD Encore 2.0. The check build and flow chart processes state there are no errors. The transcoded video plays fine on computers allowing access to all thumbnails, menus and submenus, and once the "Play Movie" button is selected on the Main menu the video plays fine on most stand alone DVD players. However on stand alone DVD players there is a recurring problem when trying to select thumbnails in the submenus. When a video thumbnail or button is highlighted by using the four direction buttons on the remote control, the thumbnail starts playing the video without the "Enter" request. There is a main menu page and then two sub menu pages. From the Main Menu, it is possible to enter the first submenu page by selecting "Chapters" where there are six video thumbnails and a NEXT button to access the second submenu page. It is not possible to select any of the thumbnails other than the two nearest to the top left thumbnail, either of which play the video uncommanded when highlighted. Is there a setting that I have missed in the preferences prior to transcoding. I have used PAL DV High Quality 7MB VBR 2 Pass which I understand results in good quality.
Thank you in advance for any help that may be offered.

You are quite right. Stupidly I confused "Auto Activate" with Animate thumbnail. Everything now works perfectly on the stand alones. I cannot thank you enough as although the solution itself was very simple, you have saved me many many hours of head scratching and frustration. Thanks.

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