Marc--
Thanks for the reply.

The first menu item is "selected". But when I push any of the buttons I get the red "stop hand" warning and it won't go forward.

There are only 3 buttons, and they're far enough apart that I don't think there are any conflicts there...I've even done the button overlay and everything seems to be stacked up correctly.
In the preview mode, EVERYTHING works like it should; it just doesn't work once I put it to DVD.

Should the main menu be set to 'play first'? and then what should the end action be set to? Currently, it's on 'stop'.

I'm self-taught on this, as you can probably tell, so I REALLY appreciate your help.

I called Adobe earlier for some support, but they don't do that for TryOut users. What griped me though, was the fact that I told them I wanted to buy the software but wanted to make sure it would work for me...they told me to search their on-line forums (kinda like finding the needle in the haystack).