Well, I had a chance to fool around with this a bit today and I was able to get it to work.
Using a combination of IfoEdit, VOB Extra's, and Smart Ripper I have a dual-sided DVD-R with American Beauty in original DVD format, no menu's no extras, DD5.1 audio. This will be the disk I take with me to try out the two mega-changers that have 'flip' capability (Sony & Kenwood). It was kind of a bummer, this flic only used 600 megs on the second side. If there was only something else to strip to get it on one DVD-R, but I took everything away. Stripped all audio and extras. It was 7.x gigs on the original disk, so I did get rid of quite a bit.
Roveer