I had the same problem as you did with Terminator 2 and The Pledge with Monsters Inc. Just couldn't get to encoding stage. Vstrip produced some sort of error message when doing the initial scan and I got a windows protection error. (Wish I knew enough to know why.) Mind you, it's the only one I haven't been able to rip so I'm not complaining.

No problem at all with Austin Powers though. Perhaps you should try again and test the mpegs with wmp or whatever before burning.

Note: If cdrsoft forums are down, any tutorial from ChickenMan will, no doubt, appear at CDR Times as he is also an Admin of its forum. (We might even get lucky and have him post it here since he is a member, though not all that frequent a visitor.)