So far* it looks like it's going to be a go. The film is the new Star Trek, by the way. Just as you predicted, it's a particularly tough customer, so it has its own thread over there. The members not only had two programs that had worked for most everyone, but they also explained some of the things to look out for - false Titles and false file sizes designed to error out ripping programs that can't handle large files. In fact, that was the case with two programs that failed for me.

*I have the film ripping to my hard drive at work, using DVDFab, I started it before I went home Thursday. I'll ride in tomorrow and check it. If it works, and I have no reason to believe it won't, I'll burn the rip back to a DVD and then extract the audio track from that.

Anyway, the site was very helpful and very interesting. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks again.

*Edit*

Worked perfectly. DVD to hard drive, local copy to DVD, MP3 from the copy.

Thanks again, man.