I've had the most horrid luck when it comes to saving my files with CDs.  Between bad zips, bad burns, corrupt disks, inability to "inflate data" from zip files on a burned CD.... I don't even want to think about the amount of content that I've lost or the number of times I've had to redo all of my runtimes.

As this recent phenomena seems isolated to my props and my V3 character addons runtimes (I hope), I am counting myself lucky.

I plan on purchasing another external hard drive, so that way I'll have my files saved in 4 places...2 external drives, DVD's and my large volume on my partitioned C drive.  I'm done with CDs and trying to use them to store files because I'm done with using zip files to assist me with that.  I'll be storing all of my runtimes in an unzipped state to minimize the losses.

It's so frustrating to spend so much time saving stuff only to find out in the end you wasted your time and lost it anyway :(

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi