joebshmoe: I hope you don't mind but, just for shiggles (ie. shitz 'n giggles, heh), I made a 720p xvid avi from the original WMVHD file and decided to upload it to RS.
I used AutoMKV using the "2 Pass Insane Quality" profile, video is 1280x544 with a bitrate of 1900 Kbps.
I had a problem with the audio encoding, so I used your AC3 5.1 448 Kbps audio stream. Again, I hope you don't mind.
The size of the file is 1gb, although there isn't much difference with the wmvhd file when playing them full sceen.
Edit: I seem to have lucked out in that there doesn't seem to be any junk lines showing up when I play it, even with VLC
Edit 2: joebshmoe, I sent you a PM and resent it but I'm not sure if you're getting them, because they're both just sitting in the Oubox and not in the Sent messages box. I was wanting to know if you can update your posting of the links for this edit.