Can't answer your questions as I don't use standalone and/or multi-cd movies myself, except for this one: "What is the purpose of the file bsplayer.exe.manifest?"
As far as I know, this file is used by Windows XP for skinning. Without it, you can't use the blue/silver theme. However, because BSPlayer has native skinning, I'm not sure why this file is required...
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