Kingsley,
I’ve had a few problems in the past with getting buttons to show up, and the only thing that has worked for me is re-editing the menu in Photoshop with the layer set as (=3). Sometime Encore just bugs out even though I have done the layer setup in Photoshop properly. Earlier this week I burned a DVD that worked fine on the Encore preview, but when burned to DVD the buttons didn’t show up. I went back to Encore, did “Edit Menu in Photoshop”, did EXACTLY what I had done previously and burned again. DVD worked fine. It seems that Encore is just a little weird sometimes. I wish I had a better solution for you…
Brock