are you sure you're thinking of cdwav? i don't know it's correlation with the dat drive. I record to the pc using wavelab and then track in cdwav. been doing that for 5 or 6 years now without problems. I think cdwav definitely can be trusted. Plus, tracking in cdwav cleans out all the stupid header info that wavelab puts in there. if you were to track in wavelab then compress using flac, you'd keep getting "unknown subchunk PAD" errors. with cd wav, that doesn't happen.
you should resample prior to dithering. if you are processing wavs (resampling included), dithering should always be your last step. that allows the program doing the processing to use all the bits available to it. so, if you record at 24/48, here's how i would do it:
-record 24/48 file in wavelab.
-edit sets to proper length (cutting out the crap before/after the band plays that you don't want)
-add fades at beginning/end of each set in wavelab
-resample to 44.1 in wavelab
-dither to 16bit using whatever dither algorithm you like in wavelab
-save file
-open file in cd wav
-place a track marker at the very, very beginning (0:00:00.01 or whatever the time would be). this would eleiminiate a sector boundary error on the first track
-split the tracks in cdwav
-add a final track break right at the very end of the file (after the music has faded out, right before the file ends)-this will create a track of like 2 milliseconds long.
-in the bottom of cdwav, unclick the very first track and the very last track (each of these tracks are the 2 millisecond tracks designed to eliminate sector boundary issues).
-then click Save As and the individual wav files will be saved
make sense?