Thanks Ady.
I've just made a donation to the ESB:R materials fund to say cheers for your help with this. I'm nearly off the ground...
I've ripped the lossless avi now, and also converted the ac3 to six wavs. I've loaded them all into Vegas but, the issue now seems to be that one stream is slightly longer than the other, so the audio needs to be slightly stretched to get everything in sync. Is this normal?
I've checked everything is marked as 23.976 during conversion, and don't think it's to do with the 'regulate timecode' flag in River Past. Stretching it is not a problem but sometimes there are minor artifacts in the audio.
Also what colour settings do you use when creating your AVIs with River Past? RGB seems to lead to 0-255 colour levels so the blacks are too black, and the colours too vibrant.
Cheers again, Kris