An update to this sound issue. It is no longer a problem. The scene edited DVD plays perfectly both on my computer, using Power DVD, and on my older set top DVD player. The lost sound issue only occurs when played on my newer DVD player, which has built in Up Conversion, to enhance the picture from 480p to 1080i. This upconverting improves the picture using DCDi technology by Faroudja. While it does a nice job on all factory DVDs, it obviously gets lost trying to upconvert on a DVD in which I have edited out scenes. If I have only edited out an entire block, using the Hide Block command, it plays fine on either player. I am satisfied. I will just use my regular DVD player for playback of these scene modified DVD movies.

I could still use help however on the digital blocks that appear at the edited points during playback on either machine. This only occures on roughly half of the edits. Some jump perfectly cleanly through the edited portion, and some display digital blocky noise for a second as it moves past the cutout section. Any ideas? Thank you very much.