You are one helpful dude. And awake at the same time as me as well. (20 past midnight here in Oz). As the goal is to end up with another minidisc with the same material on it, can you give any more detail as to how i would get the material back onto a disc. And with this as my intention, would I not go from md to hard drive rather than CDR and then back to (my backup)md? Lastly, is this a straighforward thing to fit up the PC with an optical input?