In a message dated 6/25/2008 10:10:29 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
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This  supplementary info may not answer Phil's question,but may be useful
to  anyone looking for a no-cost alternative


  
   Great info! And actually you hit on my problem  with:  One caveat - XP 
does not support burning VCD or DVD,however the  burning software included with 
CD/DVD drives often supports that.

When I reformatted this old Compaq (xp sp2) I didn't have the  cd burner's 
orig. software disc and thought nothing of it since it seemed  to work fine with 
xp's drivers. I guess that's the reason after I set up the  slideshow, my 
"burn to disc" option is greyed-out. I'll try downloading from HP  and if that 
doesn't do it, I'll move to my home-built machine whose cd and dvd  burners' 
software I DO have.
 
    Thanks for the input,
    Phil



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