I'm aware of Nero, but is there a reliable and simple ie free means of burning photo DVDs? DVD limit almost. I've not found anything obvious on download.com
I've read on this forum that XP doesn't provide for this, but I have to say that I'm surprised that it doesn't seem to have anything to do the job. It has 'send to' which creates the temp files, then shows the DVD as having the files on it. But it just hasn't. Try to run them and the hard-drive runs.

Yep, confused again.
This just leaves one stranded with a load of temp files - somewhere. I found a delete temps on a right click, so hopefully there isn't the detritus of a failed attempt lingering.