CD Burning using XP and Roxio CD Creator

I am at my wits end with cd burning on my machine with XP Home. I have no problems burning to CD R discs but when it comes to burning to re writable discs its a different story. What I am trying to do is use a cd rw disc like a floppy ie to store back ups of our important files. These files are updated daily and I find floppys too slow. When I try to overwrite my previously saved files with updated versions of the same name I get messages saying that the files on the cd rw disc are read only and cannot be overwritten. I can however save the file with a new name. This seems wasteful of disc space when dealing with large files. If I try to chsnge the properties of the files so that they are not read only I get Access is denied messages. I have also been using Roxio Easy CD Creator Platinum 5 complete with patches installed. Using the Direct CD application I have been able to use cd rw discs like floppies using drag and drop saving. However since trying to make a back up copy of 'Robot Wars' CD ROM I have experienced huge problems forcing me to remove the CD Creator software and am trialling a version of Nero 5.5 from their web site. I cannot yet work out how to use cd rw like floppies in Nero. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[quote]Originally posted by fishphone:
<strong>When I try to overwrite my previously saved files with updated versions of the same name I get messages saying that the files on the cd rw disc are read only and cannot be overwritten. I can however save the file with a new name.</strong><hr></blockquote>

This may not be of any help, but since you're using CD-RWs, erase one every other day and then re-use. I've had the same problem trying to save additional files to a CD-RW, and none of the additional files had the same names as the ones previously recorded. The only way that it would allow me to add files was if I was to use the DATA CD project option, then all I have to do is drag and drop the files I want to add to the cd. That Direct CD thing works a little funky, I don't think it works the way it was intended to work.

yep. you have to format it for something called direct cd. then it works like a floppy. if not, you can't just rewrite files. you have to erase the whole cd and start anew. also, make sure you aren't 'closing the cd'. theres 2 options, one for session, one for cd. Closing a cd basically turns a cdrw into a cdr. closing just the session allows more stuff onto it.

its funky stuff.