Thanx! But I can't actually take credit for it, I actually got it from a gentoo forum:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709

and just posted the steps I used, which in turn I think they got from here:
http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/t...C_Media_To_DVD

. . .and like you said it's the only thing that has actually worked right!

There is another guy who has a script out threre called avitovob here:
http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/wiki?AviToVob

which I have tried and it works good, too. But I prefer to use the above method instead. . .

There is also KMediafactory for creating menus as well, which I have not tried. . .YET!

And on one movie I did, which was split into two parts with 5.1 surround sound, turned out to be just over 4.5 gigs, too big for a regular DVD disc so I used DVDShrink to get it back down to size without losing much quality. . .But I had to use an earlier version for it to work, I think it was version 1.2 or something. . .The latest version just errored out on me. . .