Hi Toaddub,
thanks for the suggestion
they are all still menu items for navigation (not animated)
Unfortunately the 2nd set is now in the mail on the way back to Amazon.com (I've kept the 1st set as that was far better condition than the 2nd set they sent as replacement)
AnyDVD previously ripped the s9d4 from 2nd set successfully, but couldn't rip s9d4 from the 1st set.
However
DVDfab HD ripper managed to rip from 1st set, but it took 1 hour 19 minutes to do so cause it had a lot of surface scratches on it (FYI - my PC is AMD 2.8Ghz dual core with 2 GB RAM, so that's not the cause of slow rip).
Used
CloneDVD2 to burn a copy, but it still has the same menu problem when using my Philips DVD player, so have zipped the files as suggested.
There are 12 .IFO files and 1 x VIDEO_TS.VOB; but no VTS_0x_0.VOB from this set 1 rip.
I've uploaded zipped files to here for download
sg1_s9_d4_IFO.zip and examination by anyone who might be able to find the fault with them (1.2 MB)
meanwhile I'll keep fiddling with the files myself, and trying different software to fix
Johnno