What do you do when a DVD is the only footage you got?

Ok so here's the story, I posted something like this about a week ago on a earlier forum discussion, but now some of the apsects have changed.
A family member took some of our 8mm reel film into a transfering place to have the footage put on DVD. Well the DVD turned out great, but I wanted to take part of that DVD and edit it so I could make a documentry tribute film about my Dad whom passed away awhile back. On that DVD there is about 8 minutes of good footage of him that I would like to use, so I used a trial DVD ripping/converting software and converted it to MPEG2 and the results were great, quality appeared just as good as the DVD and I would be fine with using that for my documentry/tribute film, when I imported it into Premiere 1.5 it plays fine on the monitor and it actually plays great on the timeline, no complaints. Now when I go to render it, it plays all jerky like the frames get all messed up or something. On that earlier discussion that I posted this information, people had responded that I need to get the original 8mm film and have it transferred to mini DV or on a hard drive so I can edit it from there. Well the problem with that is the original 8mm film got thrown out after the DVD was made, so all I have is the DVD. Is there any setting I can change in Premiere so it isn't all choppy like that when I render it or is there a way I can have the DVD transferred to mini DV tape and then edit it in Premiere as usual? I'm not sure what to do and I really need the footage off the DVD. I do realize that I'm going to lose quality, but this is all I got, so I have to make it work. Do transfer video places have the ability to put a DVD into a format which wont lose much quality, is it possible to have them transfer it to mini DV or is there a way I can? Please, please help,
Thanks,
Jason

For those following along at home, I responded to Jason via PM.
Much will be eliminated, but given the situation, my recommendation was to use either a digital video camera with passthrough capabilities (or A-D bridge) to feed from the DVD player and capture as DV-AVI Type II for editing. Yes, there will still be the first MPEG-2 compression (no way around it), and then, if DVD-Video is the intended output, another Transcoding to MPEG-2.
I had suggested going up to the max with the bit-rate, when Transcoding this section for use in a DVD-Video.
I'm hoping that someone else has an even better plan for Jason, so that the very best possible output can be obtained, regardless of what the source footage is in this case.
There is also no need to suggest going back to the original 8mm, as they no longer exist. Obviously, if possible, that would be the ideal, and just telecine to a miniDV tape. Unfortunately, that is not a possibility.
Open to other ideas,
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