Thank you so much! I knew there was something missing, turns out the wrapper table was the key. I think most of the other styles had were just complicating things even more. It’s functioning great now in IE Win 2K and Safari. Still qwerky in Mozilla and IE Win XP (leaves blank space below it in both, huge blankspace in Mozilla) but I’ve messed with it since then, so I’ll need to go back and fix some things.
Actually, someone from the Encore forum clued me in that I can just import the VOB file back into Encore and replace the original Quicktime Refs with the VOBs I like – Worked great!