Ah, Dear Brutus, you speaketh so well with thy foot in thy mouth (grin) ----- Original Message ----- From: "emarquette" <emarquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 10:38 PM Subject: It's not Nero or JFW! It's me! This is incredibly embarrassing. I discovered the fundamental problem with my use of JAWS and Nero. The problem, you see, is me. I have an external CD burner. After I sent my frustration message I decided to make sure all the connections to the burner were secure. I did this last week, so didn't really expect to discover anything. In fact, the power cord for the burner was unplugged. (I can only speculate that my wife or the cleaning lady decided to dust the power strip.) After plugging it in, the options that had been grayed out (causing me to think I wasn't doing something right) suddenly became available. With the wonderful help of Joy and Chris (See their messages earlier) I was able to burn a CD with no problems. It was so gratifying to hear the sound of the trumpets-- Nero's way of telling you the burn was successful. I fully, formally, and officially take back all the negative things I said about Nero, and (at least by implication) JAWS. I still don't think Nero is exactly intuitive, but it works fine if you plug in your CD burner. The moral of this story: Well, you can figure it out. Thanks to all those who sent terrific suggestions and helpful tips. Humbly yours, Ed Ed Marquette 930 West 34th St. Kansas City, MO 64111 (816) 561- 7111 -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx