Quote - Nero sucks period, I used to have it and had no end of problems like you're alluding to here.

Easiest solution!  Bin it and get "RecordNow" instead!
It's very easy and intuitive to use and has so far never given me any problems!

I dare say others will disagree with what I've said!  [shrug].

I won't.  Burner suites are largely bloatware.  I see no reason to pay for that crap, when there are free tools for all of it:

Burnatonce writes images (images are the way to go when burning discs IMO, you get a lot less problems when your burning software is burning a single file (an image) than when it's parsing tons of files with no "wrapper").

ImgBurn burns those images to disc (it has a verification option, if you like that sort of thing).

Arcadia, you might want to try these programs and see if that clears up the issues.

Quote - I use Winzip for zipping and unzippling.  I didn't know you could verify the archives.  Can you tell me how to do that with Winzip?

I don't know about Winzip, but free (nagware) Winrar does archive verification, at least for files compressed in RAR format.  I made a post in your other thread about it.