[spooky]

Man Alive..... this post is cool....

The main thing i think thats causing the trouble is the use of an external plug mod.....

Have you tried your backups in another psx yet.... preferably one with an internal mod fitted...If they work then you are doing nothing wrong, and can only suspect the mod you have.

Dont worry about CloneCD if your burner isnt compatable, use CDRWin instead, just leave all the settings as default, but for reading then make sure that the RAW option is checked, for writing then leave all settings as default including the RAW option. Use 4x to read and 2x to write. And dont forget the patch.

I have read lots about renaming Clone image files to *.bin, well in some cases i can see that this may work but in most i would have thought that it wouldnt.