Importing & Editing My Own DVDs

Hello
I have a DVD Recorder in my living room and want to be able to edit stuff I record on my Mac using iMovie. Ideally I want to be able to remove adverts etc quickly without needing to watch the programmes as I record hovering over the pause / unpause button.
IS there a way to import these files (vob, ifo etc) into iMovie to edit them? If not is there an easy (and ideally cheap) option to allow me to do this?
Cheers,
Carl.

@just for rick.....
;-))) ROTFL
... and the best: because mainly "beginners" granted me 2 - 4 + for that, my calculation says, within less then 7 months I'm an level4 expert!!!....
a) nobody learns anymore to handle a library.. I mean, the real ones, with printed books... our computer systems (all!) still work with techniques from the 15th century... "spotlight" just can show content discribed in words... most of my 10k fotos are named as DS00134005.... etc.....
so: 10.5. needs some "master" idea for a process called indexing
effect: nobody knows how to handle "search" or "FAQ"
b) the worm should taste the fish, not the fisherman.... maybe, we see in the future a "dvd import function"... ok, there's this DRM-thing... but not with homebrewn ones.... (who said "video iPod"??? )

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