Ok, that makes much more sense.

I was able to rip the disc to my set-top DVD recorded hard drive and split it into three 1-hour-mode single-layer discs, but since not even the framing in the additional scenes is the same, on top of the digital compression and time-compression, I guess there's no point in trying to do anything more with the This version?

I don't even know if Paramount has the ABC master. As I said, I believe the video transfer for the ABC cut was done by ABC - read my previous post on that for more of what I know (or at least have heard/deduced).