I read the whole thing twice and seemed to miss the part where Chris talked about encoding bitrates...He states "don't worry that the bitrate setting says 128 kb, since we will be using our own presets anyway, the displayed bitrate won't mean anything"

Trouble is, I don't see any explanation about where the bitrate setting is to be made. I assume that they're made in the LAME encoder settings, but again, I see no info on that either? Am I missing something or just being a little dense tonight?