Best way to handle two tracks with subtitles?

Greetings All,
I'm starting a new thread from a previous discussion on mixed 16:9 and 4:3 footage since I've hit a new somewhat separate issue. Mixing footage requires the use of two tracks sao that proper display modes can be set for each aspect ratio. However, I will ulitmately have two subtitle tracks as well on this project. I'm not too concerned about switching between the two subtitle streams; that seems straightforward enough. But I am at a loss as to how to allow two tracks to use the same subtitle stream.
This is not like a multi-angle situation where two tracks are actually refernceing the same exact subtitles. The subtitles for the 16:9 clips will be different from the subtitles for the 4:3 clips. If I was using one track, I would be all set as I could just lay the clips out one after the other and then drop the subtitles in sequentially as well.
But with two tracks, clips on each track occupy the same timecode at the same time, so I'm unsure how to program things so that the proper subtitles play at all times. Am I making sense?
Just to simplify things: if I have one 16:9 clip on track 1 and a 4:3 clip on track 2 and they each have associated English subtitles that must reside in stream 1 (and also Spanish subs in stream 2), as far as I can tell they overlap timecode which creates a problem for subtitles.
Do I need to use scripting? Any pointers in the right direcftion would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Todd Nocera

Todd, are we to understand that you have the subtitle files already? That is, files complete with timecode?
If your question is about how to make sure that, once the user has selected English subtitles prior to (or during) playback of Track A, Track B also plays English subtitles, that's part of the DVD video spec. Subtitles are a system stream so once a stream has been activated, that stream should continue to play for all tracks. Unless there is something odd going on.
But, again, please detail what exactly the issue is.

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