I uninstalled all my burner software. I also found out XP wasn't recognizing my drive as a burner. But now XP has hard crashed so many times this week from trying to burn stuff, it crapped out, well and truely. I would get a new blue screen of death at start up, and when i finally got back into Windows, not much would work at all including the Help, WMP, and IE. So i did a reinstall of Windows (upgrade option to keep my files instead of fresh install) with my cdrw removed. At midnight last night i got XP working again. So, the next step I see is to add the cdrw back and getting windows to recognize it as a burner, then trying the windows software to burn, and if that don't work, then i will try Nero as you suggested. Will update when I get it working.