I had already found everything except the framework dealie and started another attempt at encoding. The first pass of the encode was at 49% when I read this message and deleted the framework dealie. Wonder if it will complain when it reaches the second pass, or if it will just work?

Thanks for all your help, everyone. I don't have a solution yet, but all the great help and advice in this thread gives me a warm fuzzy.

This is very frustrating, there's about a dozen other things I want to get to, but I keep getting tripped up on this and must spend every free moment trying to get last weekend's con movies properly encoded. I'd rather be working on music, or testing Nong's beta toy, or doing other updates to my web site... but until I get a proper solution for encoding movies for my web site, I just can't move forward with anything. Argh.