Thanks madshi, I just started playing w/eac3to today, and here pops your post! Like the sourcefile printout, and already noticed it prints my "Nero missing" error instantly this time!
I see that Nero 7 is dirt-cheap, and the plugins are $25; but I have not used Nero for years as it's bloated with stuff I neither need nor want on my computer.
Has anyone here figured-out how to minimally install the audio decoder from Nero 7, and the Plugins without all that other junk, er, good stuff?