[What video/audio software for the show]

Considering there's a Mac Pro sitting there during the breaks, I'd say it's probably Final Cut of some sort. Most likely Final Cut Studio.

[Getting better at virus removal.]

Are you familiar with Hiren's boot cd?

This will let you run a lot of the tools you mentioned above in a dos or PE, which has really helped me out quite a bit in isolating and eliminating troublesome software.

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

Unfortunately, Hiren's as well as MiniPE are considered warez due to the software contained within them.

[Getting better at virus removal.]

I really enjoy trying to remove viruses and I'd like to get better at it. I didn't know if there were any specific websites or books I should read. Also I didn't know if there was some way to practice, maybe infect a VM and try to fix it?

Tools I currently use:

Malware Bytes

ComboFix

Rootkit Reveler

HiJack This

AutoRuns

ProcessExplorer

Are there any guides that would help me use these tools more effectively? Thanks!

The only other ones that I'd recommend that are not in your list are

Super Anti-Spyware -- Picks up things that MalwareBytes does not.

Dial-A-Fix -- Only for Win XP - Repairs basic WinXP catalogs & services that get messed up by infections

HiJackThis Log Analyzer - http://hijackthis.de/ - Parses the HiJack This log for you

There are no all encompassing guides for removal that I know of. It is more along the lines of knowing what order to run things and how to run them (mostly in safe mode if possible and for each individual profile).

If you are setting up a VM machine to infect, infecting it with files from the Malware Database can let you try to fix infections on some of the latest malware.

[Episode 5x16]

I liked this episode quite a bit. I'm loving the Virtual Server stuff. It might be nice to see a more full blown approach of what can be done with a setup as well as comparisons to the other bare metal visors.

The AVIDemux program seems too limited in what it can do and doesn't seem to have as many options. There are quite a few other programs that I would rather use to have more advanced settings than that one does. While not many things will compare to stuff like FCP, Avid, Premiere, etc., it's still a nice option for those looking to do some basic video manipulation, but I would hardly call it a video editor of any sort as it just doesn't have enough to make it such.

[IDS IPS - they exist but who really uses them ?]

I was looking into something like this as well. I'm looking to monitor network traffic, but being new to this kind of thing, I've been playing with numerous things, like Snort and a few various Linux Firewalls like Endian and Entangle with inline monitoring.

I would really love to see some additional material on how some of this stuff is set up, since some of the documentation I've read just is not clear enough.