Well, I noticed the other day that my purchase folder alone houses more then 30 gigs OUCH!!! So putting them on CD would be a little tough to do. I'm going to be burning them to an external harddrive, but right now I only have 80 gigs on that puppy, so when I backup my purchases, it will be half full!!!! As soon as I can, I'm going to get a dual layer dvd burner. My computer is in the shop right now and I checked on the prices and I can get a really nice one from my computer guy for only $78. So it's on my wish list now...that is if they can ever get my baby up and running again!!! Of course also on my wish list are two more external hdcases with at least 120 gig harddrives in them. I much prefer the external harddrive backup route myself. But I like my stuff backed up on two different places anyway. Anyway, if I do use cd's then I burn them lower then the max, I've also been told to do that to reduce the possibility of buffer overruns during the burning process which results in errors and a cd becomes a nice coaster and to reduce loss of data also.