Everything you'd ever want to know about burning software and media(disks) can be found here:http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd.shtml

Click on the "CD Media World Forums" up top for a good place to learn also.

Keep in mind,just because the spindles of CD-R's you buy say Memorex,doesn't mean they are actually "made" by Memorex. Most of it is farmed out to"no-name" media Mfg's. There is a small program you can dn/load that will tell you who actually made the blank you have in the drive called CDRIdentifyer.If your interested,you can get it here: http://www.gum.de/it/download/english.htm