Thanks, all. In the end, I went for a CD R/RW drive - bought and installed it this afternoon. I figure the chance of me using a DVD writer to anything like its potential at the moment is pretty slim. Anyway, I am likely to be buying a second PC soon as there are too many people around here trying to use this one all at the same time. That one will be much higher speced and I will most likely get a DVD writer on that.
Thanks again.
Aiglon