Ive rebuilt dozens of games with no problems.
And i followed there steps word for word but i dont know what must of gone wrong.
The best ive done is direct copy and that got me to the loading screen.
I have swap magic 3.3 im burning at 2x on TDK DVD+R (my ps2 backups work best on +R media)
EDIT:
Ive finally got a working copy.
I used gnie's iso rebuilder tool.
Try the first link first because im hosting it at a free file site. The second link is a direct download from a website so try not to use it unless the first one is down.
1.
http://www.savefile.com/files/9958278OR
2.
http://www.alucard.cc/ps2/ExPERT_v1.03.rarDownload it and then follow these instrcutions and it will work.
1. select Shrinker_ps2_psp_CdDvd5_iso.epi on the plugins list.
2. Select the iso.
3. Click extract LBA
4. Click extract file
5. Click rebuild file
6. Click rebuild lba.
Make sure you do it in that order.
This worked for me when every other way failed.
It is very easy to do so even the noobies should be able to do it.
Keep in mind im backing up the PAL version, but if your having trouble backing up with NTSC then i dont see a problem trying.
Good luck.