I presume you meant "LD's", and I live in America. Besides, from what I've read, the PAL LD's don't make a tremendous difference.
"hope this helps"
Immensely. Hey, it's asking dumb questions and getting good answers that got me this far in the first place.
(BTW, please forgive me typing earlier. I was holding my 4-month-old son at the time. )
"I hope you'll eventually make the dvd image itself available, as, depending on the encoding settings and quality, even a 2 CD rip can fail to accurately reflect the strengths of the original source."
Well, for now, my concern is getting my current version on BitTorrent, just so everyone can see where I am right now. 4.7 GBs seems a lot to download, but maybe that's just me.
"AVIs and VBR audio don't mix very well, unfortunately."
Near as I can tell, FairUse used VBR audio, and it sounded great.