DVD Sound Quality After Transferring to iPod

I have finally been able to transfer a previously owned DVD to my 30gb iPod and the picture quality is great! However, the sound quality is not up to par. The audio (but not the video) to the DVD when playing on iTunes and the iPod is "skipping." I used the following programs to transfer the DVDs to iTunes:
DVD Decrypter
Digiters DVD to iPod Converter.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to clean up the sound quality? Any suggestions on good, easy-to-use software for ripping and converting?
THANKS!!!

OK, so I went back and listened again to the tracks in iTunes, and it turns out that for some reason even though I thought I checked the "use error correction" box on my home computer's iTunes, error correction wasn't turned on after all. I noticed because I did hear the distortion on the playback of one song when played from iTunes. I am in the process of re-importing a couple of cd's with error correction turned on, and I am pretty sure this is the problem. I re-imported the one song I noticed it on originally and it got rid of it. I listened to one of the cd's back this morning in iTunes and didn't notice the distortion, but apparently it was there and I just missed it. So, chalk this one up to user error/self pwnt, haha!

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This is not my area of expertise - hopefully someone will offer some "expert" help.
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