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Thanks for the guide. It took a few tries, but everything appears to be working OK now.

FWIW, when I ran through the process the first several times I was using an X2 4400+ on a DFI Expert board and an Nvidia 7800 GT. Everything worked perfectly right up until I went to launch the desktop--I'd get no video, scrambled video, or some other garbage. I swapped out the X2 and used an E6400 on an Asus P5B-D with the Nvidia 7800 GT and got basically the same result. I then swapped out the 7800 GT with an ATI 1950XT and when I launched the GUI it worked.

I have no idea why it didn't like the previous hardware, and for all I know it would have worked fine with the X2 4400+ and the ATI video card (I do have another 1950XT so I'm going to set it up with the X2 4400+ in another machine; but not today!). I did put the 7800 into a Windows machine and it worked fine, so....

No group should be censored, edited, or removed. No matter what the group advocates censoring it is much, much worse.

I don't think the region encoding or the presence of sub-titles will make any difference whatsoever when it comes to Americans or Europeans acquiring reasonably priced CDs/DVDs from other parts of the world. Most modern DVD players are produced for an international market so the default region coding can be set (usually at the factory) for the intended market, but it can also be changed by the end user. And, many players can be set to ignore all region encoding and some even do on-the-fly conversion between the NTSC and PAL video standards. For example, my Phillips DVD player at home (I forgot the model number) plays both NTSC and PAL disks with my NTSC television and I've long since set it to region 0 so it completely ignores any region coding on the disk. The player was less than $100, some of the best money I ever spent. As for the subtitles, those are easily turned off.

However, one possible (probable?) result of reasonably priced disks anywhere in the world is that more people will be able to acquire "originals" from which to make decent quality copies, so from Big Content's perspective, this may well backfire.

FWIW, I haven't bought a "new" CD or DVD in the last 10 years or so--all my disks are purchased used so that Big Content doesn't get a cut. If they want any of my money they're going to have to bring reasonable prices here as well.