I have a DVD with a simple black menu (made in the program), and writing that says PLAY MOVIE 1 and PLAY MOVIE 2. The PLAYs are red and are text buttons, which I learned about in the manual. I believe I set the highlighting, but when I burned the DVD and threw it in my player, there were no highlights.

And that's the problem: I can't get the highlighting to work at all on my text buttons.

heath

Make sure that "Include Text in Highlight" in the Inspector is selected. I often forget to check this box. Though it sounds like it worked when you simulated it...?