Assistance with Movie translation

I have a MAC (10.4.10). For some time, I've unsuccessfully
tried to proceed from movies (downloaded as rar files) into
something that Toast can burn onto DVD. Simply can't do it.
Toast (8.0.1 Titanium) is great at burning wmv files to DVD
and also works fine with mov-mpeg4 files. Toast usually burns the
video part of an avi movie, but always loses the audio portion. I use
ffmpegX to convert avi files to mov4 files which then burn fine. Toast

works fine with mpg files but not many long movies are split
into mpg segments.

So I download the multiple rar files and use MAC-PAR Delux
(3.7) to produce the files with the .l00, l01, etc.,
extensions. I can then use Terminal (1.5) to produce an
extension-less file that'll play with VLC but never one that
Toast can recognize to burn. I found ffmpegX for
changing formats but it can't recognize the file Terminal
produces either so, of course, it can't convert to anything usable.
I've seen advice on changing the .l00, .l01 names to .iso.100, etc and
then using Terminal, naming the file to be produced
"name.iso." Terminal will do this but I still can't get it
to load into Toast (always "damaged source.") So I have lots of great
movies waiting to burn onto DVD discs but no clue how to proceed.
Somehow I just can't believe this is a difficult thing to do,
but........

Can anyone advise? Or tell me where to look?
.

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