6. Any additional tips for a noob would be greatly appreciated, because I have yet to get a good burn. I bought some Verbatim 8x's made in Singapore tonight and I plan on trying to burn one again tomorrow. Hopefully I won't get anymore coasters. My original pack of discs were 2.4x, so I'm hoping that was the problem. I just though I would ask a few last minute questions before I crash for the night. Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
What you SHOULD do, is rip it with Schtrom. It will automatically create the .dvd file. Once it is done ripping, tell either clonecd or imgburn to burn the .dvd file, and it will automatically set the layer break for your game.
Once it is done with that, you will have successfully created a backup.
If the game does not pass stealth checks, why burn it? It obviously isn't stealth then.