Originally Posted by gght

During this time, I was in the process of building a new PC with Vista, so I re-transfered the tape with Vista software and burned with VSO (latest version). The problem disappeared.

I'm not sure what the problem was, but you may want to try re-transferring your source. You may also want to try a different application to do the transfer, like Windows built-in software or WinDV.

I'm still skeptical that my problem is resolved. I'm wondering if it will resurface.