Why do i get a delay on main menu btns becoming active?

i hope someone can help me explain this as i am releasing the DVD master monday. on my dvd master i have a first play clip that runs through to a second clip which is a still pic (text) that plays 20 seconds. at the end of this the dvd jumps to my main menu. however i have found that, on both software player and my stand alone player, the buttons to navigate to the other submenus from the main menu are inaccessible for about 20 seconds.
i have checked to see if i have any kind of loop going on the main menu but this is set up as a still. after 20 or so seconds the buttons are accessible and i can navigate as expected.
am i missing a setting somewhere?

Well, if I'm reading your latest post correctly, it seems that you would like your buttons to be active during the transition. That's fine if the buttons are actually visible during the entire transition, but if there's a page flip or something where the buttons aren't always 100% visible, having the highlights active the whole time will look really sloppy.
I'll assume you're using some other kind of transition where the buttons are always visible, so it would be nice to have the highlights there in case someone doesn't want to sit through the transition. As with many other areas of DVD authoring, this is an area where you really want to have completely independent elements that are fully-rendered before you start building your DVD. If you have Final Cut Pro, AfterEffects, or some other program that is capable of creating the same kind of effect, your best bet is to create a completely independent video clip first, then use it as a motion menu background and set the loop point to wherever you want the button highlights to appear.
If the transition you want cannot be done easily in another program (or you don't have the necessary software and/or skills), you can always create the clip you want in DVDSPro and import it back in. It'll be a rather time-consuming process, but it might be the only way to achieve what you want. Create an empty project with just one menu that is identical to what you want, then build a disc image (or an actual DVD if you have a spare disc around) with that menu, and extract it from the built DVD. You should then be able to take the .m2v and .AC3 files and use them as the menu assets for your new menu, although of course you can't add any more buttons or it will transcode the MPEG-2 background, which loses you some quality. You should be able to tell it where the boundaries are for the existing buttons, though.
Also, depending on which extractor utility you use, you might not be able to access the menu domain. If that's a problem, you'll have to make a clip containing your menu background and the transition instead of a menu, but like I said, you won't be able to add buttons later. This further illustrates that the best method is to create a finished menu background clip outside of DVD Studio Pro, and then set button boundaries, etc. after you import your clip.
I'm sure I've probably confused you further, but it seems like what I've suggested is gonna be the only way to get the button highlights to remain active during a transition. Later versions of DVD Studio Pro that allow you to create assets during the authoring process are unfortunately rather limited (iDVD on steroids, I always say). I don't believe it is possible to have highlights active during a transition, because it isn't truly a part of the menu.
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