it was the 'x' issue, didn't try a different text editor earlier...opened the ini file from a DOS prompt and sure enough, bad characters, changed that and used the smartphone profile and bingo, got it to work...now just have to play around to get the video quality that i want and i'll be good to go.

thanks for your help...this is so easy to use vs. some other DVD ripping solutions i've found, i will probably go buy this suite of tools...very nice...

Chris