v2final and v3a3 still dont seek these well. if i'm playing it... and then hit pause... it skips to a different section where i stopped... very strange stuff. anyway, here's the table which lame --longhelp gives for people trying to do lowbitrate/samplerate rips.

MPEG-1 layer III sample frequencies (kHz): 32 48 44.1
bitrates (kbps): 32 40 48 56 64 80 96 112 128 160 192 224 256 320

MPEG-2 layer III sample frequencies (kHz): 16 24 22.05
bitrates (kbps): 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 80 96 112 128 144 160

MPEG-2.5 layer III sample frequencies (kHz): 8 12 11.025
bitrates (kbps): 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 80 96 112 128 144 160

so lowest acceptible bitrate/sampletrate is 32/32000, which i'm encoding at this very minute. hopefully it works well. on a sidenote, upsampling and using vbr at the same time makes lame go crazy. no histogram, and full cpu usage...