Not to get anyone's hopes up, but post 16 turned out to be prescient.
Option 5 it was. 4 hours straight of remixing and re-encoding most of the audio and I have a build ready to preview.
I was actually getting ready to delete the files to clear some drive space (which IS a larger drive) and I realized how much work was already done.
All the deleted scene video was color corrected to match and edited in. An English subtitle track was synced. Chapters already marked.
I'll also probably be rewriting my Stereo to 5.1 guide soon too.
Please don't PM me for details, it's way too soon.
Now my toughest decisions are if I'm going to bother with menus and if this will be DVD5 or 9. I've sort of stopped burning DVD9's now that I'm considering the leap to Blu-Ray.
Anyway, still alive, and evidently not retired from editing.