Why is iDVD compressing images in my menu template?

Hi All
I am compiling a movie in iDVD ver 6.0.3 on Mac Pro using the "Lines" template from 5.0 Themes for my DVD menu. This template let's you drop in some photos that scroll across the screen.
So, I dragged & dropped some high resolution images into the various drop zones on the template. They look nice and sharp. I click the play button to test the menu animation on my 23" cinema display and the images look good and sharp, scrolling along the screen and in freeze frame (see link to comparison image below). Then, as I continue working, all the images suddenly become compressed and full of artifacts.
Anyone know why iDVD is doing this and how to prevent it? If I try to drag the image back in, it doesn't go back to sharp. But what's interesting is if I change the name of the source file and drag it back into the template again, it will go sharp again, but eventually it will compress again.
Any thoughts gang?
http://www.stephengrantphotography.com/client/questions/comp.jpg

hi there, thanks for the reply. I'll admit I'm somewhat new to the DVD world. I had iDVD set to "Best Quality". I'll experiment with the settings you recommended. I'm also working with 720x480 footage in NTSC Video mode.
I did burn a test DVD and, on my tube television, the images look more or less fine, as does the video. When I popped the DVD into my computer and entered full screen mode on my 23" Apple Cinema Display (1920x1200), that's when the menu images and the video as well revealed all it's gnarlies -- but I suppose that is normal yes?

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Hi, I've looked everywhere for help with this and just haven't found any answers yet ...
I want my Dreamweaver CS5.5 menu to look like this design I've done in PhotoShop ...
It's a simple one level list with no sub-levels.
Everything is good, except I can only set one background image for all the menu items at this level.
I want the first, last, and all the middle, menu items to use different background images.
I have no idea where or how to insert the code to set a different background image for each individual menu item ...
I know I could use images set one on top another in a column with rollover image swop, but the spry menu opens the door for dynamic content so I'm keen to get it working.
Manchester city council has a great example of this style of menu design working at - http://www.manchester.gov.uk/
They've got funky indenting of the text as well.
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This is the code for my menu list ...
<div class="sidebar1">
    <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarVertical">
      <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">News</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Groups</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Events</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
         <li><a href="#">Help</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>
This is how I set the background image (but I can only define one image) ...
I set the image background to "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg" through ...
CSS Styles
SpryMenuBarVertical.css
ul.MenuBarVertical a
I then select the background category
and browse to the image file.
doing this changes my CSS code as follows ...
ul.MenuBarVertical li
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: relative;
    text-align: left;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 170px;
    margin-top: 4px;
    margin-bottom: 4px;
    background: url(/Images/Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg);
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 170px;
    left: -1000em;
    top: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 95%;
    background: url(/Images/Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg);
ul.MenuBarVertical a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
    color: #0000;
    text-decoration: none;
    font: normal 12px Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
    background: #EEE url(/Images/Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg);
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These are the three images I want to apply to the top middle and bottom menu items :
Top menu item background image - "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg"
Middle menu items background image - "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Mid-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg"
Bottom menu item background image - "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Bot-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg"
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As I am unable to set the menu items individually, this is how the menu looks like on my website at the moment ...
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So near yet so far ! I'm hapy with the verdana font, the image size and spacing, but the background images I just can't set them right.
I'd really appreciate any help on this as I'm out of ideas.
Thank you.

The easiest way is to use pseudo elements.
To style the first and last menu items ifferently to the rest, merely add :first-child and :last-child respectivly as follows
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
ul.MenuBarVertical li:first-child a {
    background-color: red;
    color: white;
ul.MenuBarVertical li:last-child a {
    background-color: green;
    color: yellow;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarVertical">
<li><a href="#">Item 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 5</a></li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</body>
</html>
In your case, in liue of the background colour, you would have an image.
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notCompressed = False
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Else
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End Try
End While
If (notCompressed = True) Then
stream.Close()
Return temp.ToArray()
Else
Return temp.ToArray()
End If
End Function
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