The odd thing is I did manage to get it to rip a personal DVD to the N900 earlier this week. I think I used the settings from an early post in this thread and it worked a treat.

The DVD was something personal that I had created but I tried with those same settings on 'The Chariots of Fire' dvd but it didn't work.

I will keep trying different things to see if I can come up with some workable settings for other windows users. Thanks for all the help in this thread everyone.