You can't read CD-RW's in (most) regular CD players. You'll have to keep burning coasters until it works right. Make sure the disc is "finalized"; that is, make sure you tell your CDR program that you're not going to write any more tracks to the disc (some programs also call this "closing" a disc). Normal CD players can't read a disc until it's been finalized. Also, You mentioned DirctCD. Most normal CD players can't read discs written using packet-writing technology -- you need to lay out an ISO 9660 image and blast the whole thing at once (or do it on the fly, which is just a risky way of writing everything at once). Someone also mentioned multi-session discs -- do avoid these, as the other poster recommended. Paul Kearns paulk(a)microsoft.com