[pberkholz]

Hello again,

I am writing this reply to my original post for he benefit of MTU Members, if anyone reads this try to get it to MTU Support.
After more research into my slow read/write speeds, I had a very interesting conversation with a technician at Plextor. It seems that there are driver compatibility issues between the new XP ready Plextor USB 2.0 CDRW's and Buslink's, as well as Belkin's USB 2.0 PCMCIA Cardbus Adapters. Plextor say's they do not have any patches for these problems. However, they did tell me that the Adaptec Brand card would work seemlessly with their products. Anyway, I went out and purchased everything again, with the Adaptec card, and everything works perfectly. I'm burning CDG's in 5 minutes, just as advertised. And I finally get to utilize my MicroStudio software the way it was intended. Nice product, especially now that I can have fun with it and enjoy usin it. I don't even have any trouble with resources or performance when multi-tasking or surfing the web during read/wite sessions.
Hope this discovery helps someone in the future.