Please don't get me wrong as I am not advocating this and I do not own or would ever use this. I'm only posting it as another workaround to the dispicable problems that Sony's new attempt to eliminate copying has caused. Not to mention the rather ridiculous Escient fix.

A company called Slysoft has produced a program called AnyDVD, that effectively hides, cloaks or removes (I'm not sure how it works) Sony's ARCCOS, layer breaks, bad .ifo sectors and any thing else that Sony has managed to come up with, to date!

It is my understanding that once installed, you can either have the program run at startup with an icon displayed in your system tray or you can start it manually. Once AnyDVD is running, you just insert your movie and it removes the problems.

Good luck,
Erock