I have lots of extra space on the external drive I'm saving to. Both movies were named xxx.vob.partial when they finished ripping. I tried it with and without shrinking the file.

I burned the title with the most chapters when it got cut short. I tried it with a different dvd (also new), and had the exact same result: the rip is perfect for the first 56 minutes, and then ends. The reason I wanted to rip the dvd in the first place was to have it in one playable file.

i just tried it out on 300, and everything worked great except the end of the movie was cut off. Is this just because it's a newer DVD, or did I mess something up?

I'm not sure if you would want to go through the trouble, but you could download and install fat free pup 3.01. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=26445
This way you will have the ability to add/remove any default app.

I guess I could have explained my screenshot to avoid confusion. I have the icons there with tablaunch, and they automatically show/hide with mouse over. Also, the taskbar is hidden at the top of the screen and has a very different menu than the standard puppy 3.01 (which is what i'm currently runni...