rmclain, the framerate on the dvd's is 29.97. Somewhere during the rip process you have applied an inverse telecine, reducing the framerate to 23.976. The gout dvd's were created from the same 35mm film print which was used for the definitive collection laserdiscs (as far as i know).

The film was scanned via a telecine machine at 24fps because that is what film is captured at. On the Definitive collection laserdiscs the frames are stored at 24 fps and a pulldown flag on the disc signals the player to apply a pulldown, making the output to the tv 29.97 fps. On the faces laserdiscs the pulldown is already encoded onto the disc and the player just assumes that it is 29.97 fps.

On the Gout DVD's the film was rescanned and digitally transferred to DVD at 29.97 fps with the pulldown applied already (as far as i know).

The motion problems are from the DVNR which was applied to the 35mm film print before it was ever transferred to laserdisc or DVD.