You shouldn't need any more wires. Monster is usually a bit overpriced too, radio shack cables do fine(whilst we often make fun of radioshack electronics, it's a very useful place overall.) As before, you only need 1 wire from your DVD player to your receiver, and this carries ALL the audio...
Success! ;) That's good, so DD should be working fine. You don't need to put it in PLII, just leave it in DD, it should be correct. Hmm... as for no s-video on the DVD player, that's somewhat strange, but the yellow composite video connection you've got going to the TV should be fine, I...
Yes. As I explained, Yellow is video. Red and White carry audio. You don't need audio going to your TV, that's what the digital cable going to your receiver is for. You *probably* want to use s-video instead of composite(yellow), so you may want to go pick up an s-video cable at radioshack...
Optical is the eqivalent. I recommend coaxial because it's cheaper, and just as effective(if not technically superior, but that's not really relevant). So either way, it gets the job done. And again, as I explained, the video is ONLY the yellow cords/connections. Red and white is Analog...
ok, on the back there's two sections, In and out, on the in side there's two sets of yellow white and red cords, labeled Video 1 and Video 2, and then there's an S-Video plug, on the out side it says VAR audio or something like that and it has a yellow and red plug, or white and red, i couldnt...
OK, wow. You are confused. The answers are confusing. And now I am confused. I'm going to be lengthy, but hopefully thorough, and at the end you will understand better, and know what to connect. (and btw, that "guy" is an idiot, don't listen to him). Ok, there are two different things coming...