Thanks guys,
I do appreciate your help. At this point, I'm really los'in it right now. I finally got this thing to the finish line, only to have everything come down on my head. Encore tells me in the build progress window, "Writing files. Failed Completed". And the small white window simply says, "end of life". So the build just dies after about 40 seconds. Meanwhile, I can't get a render out of Premiere at all.That stopped working also. Media Encoder just sits there. So I'm lost at this point. I just don't know where to start. Since the original sequence images are 1280x 760, I'll have to work with that, cause we're talkin bout six years of work guys. I don't know how to resize that much raw video without cutting it off.
BTW, I did get that, about the menu being tied to the video. I fix that, I think. But now I have other problems. Like I said, now the video won't render out at all. 
Oh yeah, how do you post screenshots on this forum? I do it all the time on the LWave forum, but I don't see how to do attachments here. I guess I should mention, the preview window works just fine. The buttons work,and the menu is in place. Also, when I put a dvd in, it keeps coming out, and the window says, put a disk in the drive, so I do, and then it comes back out again.