Why won't chapter markers in FCP5 import to idvd6?

I recently imported a video project that I created in FCP5 into iDVD6 for DVD authoring. I put chapter markers in the video project with the idea that IDVD6 would create the sub menus. For some reason they are not showing up. I've checked the appropriate boxes in preferances but no luck. Am I missing something? Or is this a bug that Apple needs to fix?
Has anyone else had a problem or a fix for this? Please let me know.

I have also been tearing hair out with similar problems. Found some info similar to those given above. Making sure that chapter markers are at least 2 seconds away from transistions and also away from clip ends( 1second I think is min here). finally after much resaving it all worked as it should.
Now doing seperate project and its here we go again. Have now got chapter markers to work fine but now the clips which are 16:9 are showing up as 4:3 but only when you "play movie" or preview scenes. The menu's look fine.
Something very weird is going on.
The real pain is its soooooo easy when it works..............

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