Why do my iDVD themes have no "Play Movie" button?

Having just paid my local Apple store to install iLife 09 for me, as my machine refused to do it, all seemed fine. After two days, now iDVD opens, but all themes show no "play movie" or "select scenes" buttons. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Perhaps I am just missing something obvious. Thanks

but all themes show no "play movie" or "select scenes" buttons
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Hi - thanks in advance for any help to a newbie.
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Welcome to the discussions!
Glad you are using iDVD and making your project from iMovie! You have made an error with your chapter markers, and unfortunately, you would have had no way of knowing that.
You will have to recreate your DVD project. Go back into iMovie and delete your beginning chapter marker. As you have seen, iDVD makes the beginning chapter marker for you. Your movie will not play correctly if you do not let iDVD do this for you.
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Your movie should play and burn to DVD just fine now.
Good luck, and post back if this doesn't work.

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