Does Reverse Telecine with orig 24fps, trans to 29.97 ACTUALY WORK !!!

I've tried all presets within the REVERSE TELECINE POP UP options. Nothing seems to bring the 29.97 footage to actual 24 progressive frames. I saw a posting on Ken Stones website that said Cinema Tools CAN'T actually do it. WHAT? Am I missing something here? What good is it (Cinema Tools) if it can't do the job correctly.
Any ideas or approaches

I've been trying to get Cinema Tools to remove 2:3:3:2 telecine from 1080i/24pA footage. I haven't tried with DV footage. Its supposed to recognize DV 24pA footage and automatically remove the pulldown, but it doesn't recognize 1080i.
I tried exhaustively to get CT to correctly remove 2:3:3:2 pulldown from 1080i footage, using manual settings, and each time it screwed up the cadence and left interlaced frames. It seems to be a lot smarter about 3:2 pulldown than 24pA 2:3:3:2 pulldown.
But I may have found a work-around.
If you bring the footage into Final Cut, and then tell final cut to have Cinema Tools reverse the telecine, it appears that some magic happens. I've tried it several times and it seems to effectively remove 2:3:3:2 pulldown, although maybe I was just lucky.
What I think is happening is that Final Cut is recognizing the pulldown cadence and telling Cinema Tools how to remove the pulldown. CT runs blindly and when it finishes the footage in FCP appears to be properly reversed. I guess the "smarts" are in Final cut and the "how to" is in Cinema Tools.
One word of warning though: If you try this, CT will overwrite the original file. And it doesn't ask if you want to do that or provide any warnings. So if it gets it wrong there is no 2nd chance. So make sure that you copy your original file and work on the copy rather than the original.
Good luck!

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