I do the same thing. I delete the zip file after extracting it than save them on the HDD till I get enough to burn to CD. I don't recommend using DirectCD with RW's. I have had(and know of 3 other people) CDRW's go corrupt, and lost all the data on it. Wouldn't have been too bad if not for the fact that it had 400 Meg worth of Max Scene I spent 4 weeks on. I back up every major change to a project, burned to CD...there cheep. After a while I compile several CD's into one and stuff the old ones in a box.