ok i posted abunch of links to programs to get you started...

right click the link and save target as... to that folder you made on your desktop

cd burner software
that adaptec stuff wont work download these

cdrwin
to burn faster than 1x you have to download this patch...its illegal but you cant get caught unless you tell an fbi agent you have it on your computer download it here

now you need some compression software...like winzip except you need winrar...cause it is popular and better than winzip...the patch for cdrwin is compressed and if you didnt have winzip or something you wouldnt be able to download it...

anyway winrar

and the divx codec for watching divx movies...divx is dvd quality ripped...

and you need windows media player to watch it on...you have to go windows media homepage and get the file for you... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp

xnews...its a newsgroup reader...a lot of good software is available here

now an ftp client...the best and easiest one to use leechftp...this is not the thing we were trying to setup...

make sure you download all this stuff to a folder using right click save target as... then get back to me...