After many many days reading lots and lots and lots of helpful comments throughout this forum, I finally was able to make a working DVD-R copy of a movie that plays on my standalone Sony DVPNS400D DVD player and a few others DVD players and I just wanted to thank the people who take the time to help us Newbies out. As for Newbies like me, who are spending countless days reading through this forum trying to figure out how to burn a movie. Here are some quick links to some helpful postings that I found.

One of the best detailed tutorial that I found on how to copy a DVD to a DVDR.
and how to use IFOedit.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=109346

For the people who need to cut about 100 to 300MB to make a movie fit on a single Disk. Here is the best vob editing instructions that I found.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=133632&highlight=vobedit

For the newbies that are still trying to find the software needed to massage the movie to fit on a disk. Hopefully you can get what your looking for here

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/software2.htm


And towards the bottom of this topic you can find a somewhat detailed instruction on how to Burn using Nero.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=133839

Thanks again to the real hackers that help us Newbies and hopefully for all you newbies, these quick links that I listed will help you get started. I know how frustrating it can get trying to weed through all this information.