Looks like my Nero may have been crippled or corrupted as Flink said. I'll try to get a copy of the disk to reinstall it and see how it comes out. I don't have the recovery disk for this laptop or any disk that comes with it. I

Fink - thanks. I'd still like to see if I can get Nero to work. But I will also have a look at the CDburnerXP. I think I have came across pretty good review of this before.