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First of all PJ had the fell beasts done wrong. The fell Beast weren't huge dragon sized animals they were much smaller then the dragons in size.
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I believe you're correct in that point, even John Howe himself (who was in charge of drawing up the fell beast, among many other things, for Peter) admitted that he thought he'd gone quite wide of Tolkien's fell beasts. But still, I had no problem with any of the changes to the fell beasts, other than the beast-to-arrow ratio is rather high when Faramir drives one of at Osgiliath (the only problem with the beasts I had was at Osgiliath, which was one of my least favorite scenes...makes sense
). But I'm also inclined to agree with Eomer in that I think there are plenty of concept drawings out there that portray them as rather large. What a pity Tolkien himself wasn't a great artist who could've copied down what all his characters/creatures/cities looked like.
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They are formidable opponents at fighting and not many people could take on all 9 Nazgul at once (Glorfindel, Gandalf were the only ones that tried who were able to).
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If you're talking about at the fords, each had quite a bit of help. They both benefited from the other's presence (Gandalf himself admitted it wasn't likely that we would've been able to withstand them had all 9 attacked him on Weathertop), not to mention the flood, which played a huge part.
I didn't like the Nazgul vs. Eagles scene if only because (& correct me if I'm wrong here) in every scene were an Eagle was attacking a fell beast, the Eagle was dominating. Personally, I don't think 9 Eagles could even hope to take down 9 fell beasts, perhaps I'm wrong, but that's always been my opinion. And I also agree that I thought it was pretty stupid to show a Ringwraith falling off his steed, though it's not a big issue with me.