Starkdog, have you considered a personal media drive, I'm guessing your machine has the two doors on the front of it, one for the media drive, I recently bought a new Hewlett-Packard machine that came with one of these drives and I think they're a great idea, you just push you it in and forget about it, they come with powerpack so you can use it on other computers as well.  The catch is that they are rarer than rocking horse poop if you want to buy one separately, the only ones I've seen for sale are the 160 GB models...... Steve