Ah ha -- that explains why you're not answering your e-mail!
Drop me a line when you can, Scott -- I actually managed to buy the laserdisc of the *original* Director's Cut. It'll still have burned-in Chinese subtitles, but the quality should be miles better than the bootleg-of-a-bootleg VHS I've been working with for eight years.
Does anyone here know how to get data off a Laserdisc and into an editable format with minimum, or no, quality loss?
-Jeph!