Thanks Webslinger. I will follow your advice as much as I can. The Verbatim thing is not always possible since the stores here don't seem to stock Verbatim much. When they do, they charge an arm and a leg for it. Normally I order it online at a much more acceptable price. But I'm looking at spending the next six months or more bouncing around in SE Asia, so I don't really have that option right now.

I do have the latest AnyDVD offered. Good stuff, isn't it? I am unfamiliar with the dvd-rom setting. Can you enlighten me a bit on why or what this does, and how changing this setting improves copying?

I don't have a copy of CloneCD, just CloneDVD2. I went through so much money trying to find something that would let me back up my dvds, before I finally arrived here and got the info I needed. Or at least enough to let me do what I needed to. I have only had one or two failures with AnyDVD in general. I have noticed the break problem, but since I see the pauses occasionally in my regular disks, I guess I have learned to accept them in my back ups with less problem, even though it is an alteration of the movie as released.

I am more concerned about unreadable disks that negate the whole process, or in this case, unwriteable files. Which brings me to a point. As I was writing another movie, I got a media failure error message during the process. This is a different message than the redundancy error message I started this thread with. The new error message suggested simply changing the media I was writing and trying again. Which I did and everything was fine. Exactly as I expected if there was a "write to" disk problem.

Thanks for your expertise. I do appreciate it.