Sorry, won't take up much more space. Tried a different burner in OSX and on the DVD-9 file, it reported that the Video_TS folder appeared to be damaged. The torrent had an empty .rar file that said the VideoTS was fixed, but apparently not.
I'm trying the AVCHD ISO image at 2X burn speed and we'll see. Guess I find another version of the DVD-9 to pull down.