Laptop woe

Now that Movie Maker is reluctantly co-operating, my dvd burner has decided to take a vacation. Which means:

* good news for odakota_rose - Bitch is back on track! Though it's gonna take a while, what with laptop access restricted to weekends...me sowwy... :[

* and bad news for my family. I d/l and burn a lot of eps for various people and this is pissing me off. The thing is, I can put in the dvd, add the episodes I want, even edit them if I wish- but when I hit the 'burn' button, and it prompts me to save the project- it won't let me save the damn thing. I've tried the shortcut, I've gone through the menu, I've done 'ctrl' + 's' but it won't save.

Anyone encounter this problem before? Any suggestions at all? I'd love to just buy a new laptop and ditch this piece of crap but that so isn't happening anytime soon. *sighs*