Hey Jock, I have no idea why it's doing this. Computers have a mind of their own sometimes. Why not start over again, picking the files from their original folders and putting them in the burning software directly instead of into a new folder. Once you get them on CD you can hopefully delete all of those other folders the computer made on it's own. My daughter tried downloading and installing SP2 last week and it screwed up her hard drive so bad she had to replace it. The boot sectors got destroyed so all her stuff was lost. Sometimes these things just do what they want to do.