Dave,

OOPS! I forgot that XP has become the standard OS for home PCs. I simply assumed that you had a Win98 machine. My mistake and my apologies.

Aside from that, what NicoleC said.

Re your question about formats,
You should keep in mind that Older CD players can ONLY play CDs with files in the WAV format on them. They cannot handle a CD if the files are in MP3 format.