hehe... I didn't like your ideas... I came up with those myself. :P I know a friend of mine uses the same version of DJ I do and he can do disc-to-disc back-ups with no problem. I figured it may be a bad driver for my cd-rom or DJ just doesn't work well with my Memorex drive. Like I said earlier, my cd-rom accurately identifies the amount of space on the disk in Windows Explorer just not in DJ which makes me think it's the program.
I'll try DJ 3.0 and see what happens... thanks!
Chakan