well, I never said it couldn't be turned off, I just witheld that information

anyway, for those that are interested in learning fansubs, this page ought to still be up though I doubt it's been updated in many months. Funny thing is, most of the stuff can still be current even after all this time since very little has changed between then and now...

http://pepper.idge.net/digisub.html

It doesn't give any incredibly helpful information about encoding or typesetting, but it will explain some of the behind the scenes things about translating, editing, and timing.

for encoding, best to look at places like
http://www.doom9.org
http://www.avisynth.org

for typesetting, if you install vobsub2.16 or higher, 2 files, called ass-specs.doc and ass-quickref.txt, which explain how to do everything, are installed with it