Regarding the nuked release: I ripped the playlist you listed in the description for the purposes of encoding (but I haven't gotten around to it yet). I figured that was the one AnyDVD had indicated as legit when you were ripping it. Was the playlist you listed accurate? I did notice that there were hundreds of similar/identical titles when I opened it in MakeMKV, but I wasn't worried since this isn't all that uncommon. A number of movies are employing this technique, like the Hunger Games franchise.
As far as you know, should the playlist I ripped to encode be ok? If I recall, it was 772 like you have listed here. I'd rather not re-download if I don't need to.