bkev said:

How is the bitrate on the 97 SE discs? Would it perhaps be better to use the UE and then colormatch it to the SE discs, making occasional changes here and there? I mean, a DVD from 1997 probably doesn't have very good bitrate...

I hear what you are saying, and I will have to play with them and compare quality.

I did make a sad discovery tonight, and that is that the THX laserdisc version is in fact missing some picture information, but not in every scene. The pre-title sequence looks like it's not cropped, but Bond's dance with Domino at Cafe Martinique is. I may go back to the Connery Collection LD as the video source and just clean that up A bit for this preservation, but I will have to see after I finish the audio work.

Update: I now have the two L.D. versions I'm using as my sources on my PC, and I have about half of the film synced up with the alternate audio versions as of this posting.