Originally Posted by Alan Mills

Glad I could help. Strange thing though, in order to quote you the correct answer I fired up my new copy of Encore CS4 for the first time. Dragged in a couple of assets and created a menu from a template. Allocated some chapters and then when I hit the render menus option the s/w crashes every single time. Seems CS4 is nto bullet proof at all. Still, these were assets created on a different PC so may just be a codec issue I suppose.