Erm, yep! FAQ and walkthroughs can be found at www.backburner.f2s.com.
Burners last all different lengths of time. My Mitsumi has pretty much done about 500 CD's and is still going strong. The Plex is about 5 months old and done 400 CD's.
Don't let time scale put you off m8. All the writers I've had have lasted ages, and it's not usually the amount of burning that kills them, but more the amount of time spent reading. Reading Copy protected discs with programs like BlindRead and CDRWIN which sometimes took an hour are the types of things that kill writers, but gone are those days