Jeff,

About your Toshiba, I think you answered your own question by saying you still get pops... I'd disable C2 and check the "Drive caches audio" box. I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM drive I'm using and I heard that Toshiba drives are known to NOT support C2.

If you didn't find out how to generate folders for artist and album from the other thread, post here and I'll tell you. (I would now, but I'm currently ripping ).

Bonus, be sure to enable "upon extraction start compression in the background" and select 1 (or 2 if you have a fast machine). This will speed up your rips.