See No Evil said:

Hopefully it doesn't breach any rules, let me know if it does.

To clarify the rules:

If you were just adding the original audio from VHS to the video from the official DVDs, that would be classed as a Custom DVD - you can still talk about the project, but you're not allowed to talk abut sharing it.

However, as your project is purely a Preservation of the original VHS, then there are no such restrictions.

See No Evil said:

Being the geek that I am, I'm interested in the technical details of this project - what VCR you're using, what capture device, software, etc.

Ok, well I'm using a JVC HR-S7600EK S-VHS PAL VCR, connected to a PC with an ATI All-In-Wonder 128 AGP card via an S-Video cable and Left & Right audio phono leads.

Nice VCR - has a built-in TBC I think. Don't know much about the capture card, but the later ATi Theatre chipsets are known to be pretty good.

... BeLight & BeSweet to encode the AC3 audio,...

BeSweet's AC3 encoder used to be buggy, don't know if it's been improved. You should probably look at using Aften.

I know you recommended & used the Lagarith Lossless video Codec for the Evil Dead Laserdisc capture, and I did test this out as well as Huffyuv, but I was getting dropped frames with Lagarith, but none with Huffyuv, really it just comes down to compression, the quality between the two is virtually identical by the time you get to the finished DVD, so I'm happy to stick with Huffyuv.

Both Lararith and Huffyuv are lossless, so the quality is not "virtually" identical - it is "exactly" identical! As you say, the only difference is that Lagarith produces slightly smaller intermediate files (and it is compatible with more colourspaces - not an issue here).