Lucky for me I can just use my employers burners. All I need to transport my files from home to work and vice verse is a zip disk. Good advice Ikyoto but I have to say shame on you! You should known better than to only have one copy of those files around. I am sure you already gave yourself a nice big lecture about that though. A few other things I would like to ad: PAN this is especially for you. I am not a fan a Re writable CD's Cd's are so cheap in general that I don't see the need to by re writables and, in my opinion, re writing a CD only adds to all of the crazy screw ups that can occur with your files. Secondly, I would hold off on th DVD writer the tech is way to new and way way to expensive. I would give that a few more years and see were it goes. I have a feeling in to more years you will be able to purchase a device that writes both DVD and CD's and it will be cheaper than a dvd writer is right now. Thats my two cents