hi, thanks for your help guys!

downloaded divx and it confused me even more! its not hard tho!

anyway i stumbled upon another way of burning cd's with nero (nero burning rom actually, know idea why it took me so long to realise!) and hey it worked! yay!

its taken over a week but my hard work and long hours staring at the pc has paid off!

lord only knows why the files doubled in size using nero express and its quite possible il never find out! such is life