I finally managed to get the 2-disc version and ran the script on it which looks mightily improved. Many thanks Satanika. I'm impressed with how much more film like it now looks running at 23.976 fps progressive.

Any idea on the best way to encode this to run on a DVD player? Scenarist tells me that 23.976fps is illegal for the DVD standard. Do I need to start over and re-encode to 29.97fps again?

Thanks guys.

EDIT: I've been searching and searching the net and 50% of pages mention that 23.976fps is outside the DVD standard, the other 50% say that you can simply set the 3:2 pulldown flags for DVD playback. Now I'm even more confustered :/