A friend had suggested NERO and I was going to buy it until I noticed it was $100 and then I saw Roxio Easy DVDCopy (for $50). I've used Roxio with the Easy CD Creator Plus for years and liked the fact you could rip to your hard drive and then back (I've always had better luck that way). Well it does the job great! Easy to figure out but will alert you if you are trying to copy a copyrighted disk and stop. Bummer...!!but wait
DVD Decrypter to the rescue!!(Alas a great freeware product)
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_decrypter.cfm
then use
DVD Shrink (Another great freeware product)
http://www.dvdshrink.org/where.html
to copy the files files into a format that can be read by NERO for the burn. But I also found that it can be read
and burned by Roxio Easy DVDCopy. Roxio Easy DVDCopy will also do CD burns from all the popular formats .Iso, .cif etc. I realized that Roxio Easy DVDCopy does not have all the bells and whistles that NERO has but I don't need them. It works well and is simple to use. Somehow I lucked out when I was at Best Buy and they had a previously opened (not used) 25 pack of DVD 4.7 gig for $6.99.Nice!