Software to Automate DVD Ripping and Burning of 600+ discs

Ok, this is kinda important to me and my company, so I'm giving it a 500 rating.

We have about 650 video DVDs (our own original content, so no copyright issues) each of which average about 2GB.  We want to dump the entire library onto a video server and burning station that will have a total storage array of approx 1.6TB.   We will be using a Dell Poweredge 1800 server w/ six 320GB sata drives in RAID5.  The server will also have 2 DVD burners.  

My question is pretty straight-forward...

We will be using a moderately skilled employee to work at the station to oversee the dump and burning proess.  I am looking for recommendations on software packages and/or tips/tricks to automate this as best as possible.  

I was thinking an ideal ripping program would start a batch and when a disc was put in create a directory called "001", dump the entire contents to the folder, then wait for the next disc to be inserted, create folder "002" dump that disc, and so on....  An ideal burning program would allow us to queue up all the shows and burn them one at a time without messing with the software.  Just stick a disc in and burn. Software pops it out when its finished.  The the user pushes another disc in, it detects it, and burns the next project.  And so on...

Do you have any recommendations for this project?  We want to keep the data on disc because we will need instant retrival.  Also, we are going to be backing up the data to LTO2 tape.  This is over a decade of various shows we have made for television and we need to better protect them, which is why we are going this route.  We recently discovered our current masters were burned on garbage Ritek DVDs in garbage 1st generation pioneer standalone consumer burners, so we need to remaster the data.  We are getting too many problems from clients who cannot read the disc.

Hope that is enough info!  Thanks!