PT,
tried irfans viewer - jpg's still show colour banding and image displacements, so no go there I'm afraid. I have heard that Nero's "Burning Rom" is supposed to be the Dog's bolleaux, but I have to say that my experience is that it is just bolleaux. Cute name and play on words but not really worth a sh!te. Will probably try Adaptec next. If that solves the problem, I will post a note to the effect.
SR,
The drive I have is a Mirai CRD-BP4-M CD-RW which has burn-proof technology, so that would not appear to be the problem. My suspicion is the bundled CD writing software.
Any ideas why my windows explorer will show BMP thumbnails but no jpg's? Associations in explore>view>folder options>file types, all seem OK. jpg is assigned as quicktime picture, content type [mime] is "image/jpeg", default extension is ".jpg" and actions just shows "open" (using C
WINDOWS\VIEW32.EXE).
Maybe I should just get a Mac huh?
Regards,
PAAA