...are one of many things I could burn onto a DVD if someone could teach me how to actually burn DVDs.

That was cheap, I know, but I had to get your attention somehow.

I know very, very little about this stuff, so here is what I've got going on:

My laptop has something called CyberLink PowerDVD.  The little DVD/CD tray says "Compact Disc Rewritable"  "DVD Multi Recorder" "RW DVD+Rewritable" and "RW DVD+R DL" on the side.

I have Sony DVD+RW discs, Memorex CD-R discs, and mini Panasonic DVD-R discs (the kind that goes in a mini DVD camcorder, which I also have and which I would also love to learn how to upload video to my laptop from that thing, but that's another blog I guess).  Will any of these work?

I have tried copying to a DVD+RW from Windows Movie Maker.  No Go.

I have tried copying to a DVD+RW and a CD-R and a mini DVD-R from Windows Media Player.   No Go. 

If any of those actions were exceedingly stupid, well, I never claimed to be smart.  I was just trying everything I could think of.

I couldn't even figure out where an option to burn a DVD from the CyberLink thing was.  No Go.

I have no clue how to do this.  I didn't get any manuals for the software and I read the help stuff with CyberLink and still couldn't figure out how to do anything more than watch regular DVDs (well, and the mini DVDs from my camcorder).

*sigh*

I feel too stupid for words right now.  Any help anyone can give me is greatly appreciated.  And PLEASE, if you are giving me advice on what to do, put it in the simplest terms possible...like you're explaining it to a 3 year old.  Otherwise I WILL screw it up.

TIA.