Will there EVER be a usable Blu-ray designing software on the Mac??????

I am SOOOO frustrated right now. I have a brand new Mac with FCP 7. I also have Adobe Encore. I also have Toast. I have been trying to use all three to make one BRD for 6 days! I first used Encore. The disk it made was all messed up (nothing new). The menu loads up, but the buttons won't highlight for about 45 seconds. Click on a button, and instead of going to the video, it starts the menu again. I assume it's me, so I open Encore and test there, everything works fine. I burn again, same problem.
I then decide it isn't worth fighting, so I try burning a Blu-ray from FCP7. I open the share menu, choose one of the awful built-in menus, and set it to go. I had it burn the BRD image to a harddrive, as my burner is on a different machine. After 12 hours!!!!! yes, 12 hours! I get an error saying the DSPPublishing didn't work (?????????). I hit try again, and a 10 minutes later, same issue! I hit cancel. I check the drive, and there is a .264 file and an ac3. I think, well, at least the video encoding is done. I try to make a blu-ray from FCP again, and it re-encodes the video!!!! 12 hours later, same error!!!!!!!!!
I decide to bring the finished files into Toast. The menus SUCK. The chapter markers? GONE. I try burning the disk anyway and it tries re-encoding the video files!! I go back and make sure it's set to 264, and the re-encoding is set to never. I try again, and it tries to re-encode the video again anyway!!!!
THIS *****!

Let me clarify a bit. I have been making Blu-rays for quite a while using Encore. And while the process has often been very painful, the results are good. I normally Export first as mentioned. However when Encore failed (and I still can't figure out why), I tried FCPs Blu-ray feature. So essentially, I have exported this three different times, and have no disks to show for it.
As for Encore, I like that you can make BRDs, that you can customize menus, etc. However, the fact that it locks up or crashes all the time is infuriating. The fact that you cant use multiple clips without causing the BRD to freeze at the end of each clip is maddening, and the fact that its interface has the speed of running a 3D rendering program on a Commodore 64 is nauseating.
Encore COULD be a great product, but as it stands, it is a nightmare to use!

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