Floyd;
First of all, welcome to the forum.
As far as using the features of Shrink, I'd suggest that you GOOGLE DVDShrink and go from there since we cannot and do not discuss ripping/copy right protection/or any rippers on this forum.
A couple ideas to ensure the best burns that you can make:
1. Make sure that you are using only Verbatim DataLife Plus ot Taiyo Yuden discs. There are many other brand names out there but none of them surpass the TY's Or Verbs.
2. Make sure that your burners firmware is up to date.
3. Use a program, like End-it-All, to shut down all unnecessary background programs before starting your project.
4. Don't multi-task while doing your project. If good and reliable copies and originals are what you are after, take the time to do them right using all of your machine resources.
5. When you run into a problem, and you will, always post the IB generated logfile along with your question. It contains information that we use to determine what happened/what we need to advise you to do.
6. Max speed is cool to use, but I burn no faster than 8X on singledensity media and have not had a failure in quite a long time.
7. ImgBurn is better than Roxio or Nero...period.