Want to start DVD at menu - not movie....

I am using the 'Book' theme (old themes) for a simple project. I want the DVD when put in a DVD player to start at the first menu. It seems that no matter what I do, it starts playing the movie immediately and not go to the top level menu.
How do I do this?
thx
(IDVD5 - powermac)

Sounds like you have the movie in Autoplay... Click on Map and see where it is.
iDVD 5 Getting Started
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