Why no audio on scene select menu?

Any ideas on why I get no sound after adding audio track from iTunes to scene selection menu?
The track is shown correctly in the menu info/inspector well, but just does not play.
The same track works OK as audio track on main menu, but is silent when "Scene Select" is clicked.
I have experienced this problem using several templates (but not all) and presume either I am doing something wrong or that the template is bugged.
I have tried all methods of adding audio to the menu.
The background video runs OK, and scene select works OK, just without audio.

With further experimentation, I find that the top menu and scene select menu audio works properly if I start a new iDVD project and import the iMovie into it, rather than letting iMovie pass it to iDVD automatically.
Hope this may be of help to someone....

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OK
So what You want is a "Play All" button resp. a "Play one Chapter at a time" one.
Then
BAD News - There are Non ! in iDVD
GOOD News - it can in part be faked.
read on
Play all resp. one chapter at a time
Play All Button
1. There are NO - Play All - button in any version of iDVD
2. It can be faked in several ways
• Easiest and most fault proof way is to make a doublet movie containing All and with
Chapters set to match. It will take up x2 space but is easy to understand and produce.
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• It's said that one can put all movies into a Photo/SlideShow and this will also
give the function of a Play All button - Tested - and ONE HAS TO un-cheque - Scale pictures to TV-Safe area else it will be a black frame all around and a small picture !
Mike Evangelist1
You might be able to get close to what you want by using a slideshow in iDVD. (It's not widely known, but you can put videos in a slideshow.) If you set the slide duration to manual, playback will pause after each movie/slide, and you can continue with the 'next' button.
3. Using another program to do this e.g.. Roxio Toast™ where there is a Play All button option.
Summary
a. Making a Play All movie with same care as the individual Part movies - gives a very Good Result
b. Using Roxio Toast™ - also an usable way to go
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I've searched and have not found anything that helped.
I have 4 'pages' in my scene selection menu. I would like for the same audio track to play seamlessly throughout (when shifting from page to page to locate a particular scene).
In its current state, the audio starts over each time that you move to a new... erm...'page' (what's the correct term here?), and I find the lack of continuity or, at the very least, transition to be a bit jolting and quite irritating.
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