My INTEL was around 1.4gb, And i wanted to burn it on 2 CD's (Not DVD's), because some of the computer i deal with does not have a DVD/DVD-R drive.....
Anyway - a quick tip - i disable the swap file before i make the image (Windows creates it when you run windows first anyway), and that save a few hundreds of megas in the image size :O)
Haven't you had a problem with so called "Currupted" Images from time to time, Even that the image was fine, i just copied it to another folder and read it from there ?