Re burning software - is it CDs you mean? If so I found Foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org/ does the job nicely. I thought that my burner was ****ed as most of my CD burns were failing (using Nero) but Foobar worked no problem (works best on initial bootup - might **** up if you've a few things running). Houdini - you da man.