>What DVD player do you have, & is it also a DVD
>burner?

Steven, it's a Pacific Digital external USB DVD R-RW/CD R-RW (it should do it all, though I have not yet burned a DVD on this unit).

Incidentally, the drive is fully recognized in Device Manager and is listed as working properly. And, as I previously mentioned, the drive shows up in Windows Explorer when there is a pre-recorded disk inserted. It reads DVDs with no problem. Oh, and I checked as suggested by you, or someone else, and the checkbox to make the drive recordable was not checked. I checked it, but, still nada.