I'm going to keep this simple, I went through the DVD to DVD-R for dummies tutorial here's the link for detailed steps that i took:

http://www.digital-forums.com/dvd2dvdr/

I went through all the steps flawlessly and used Nero 5.5.9.0 to burn my DVD-RW. -btw, i'm using a pioneer DVD 104 burner with windows xp home P4 2.0Ghz and 512 mb ram.

Ok, when it finished burning it played fine in my standalone dvd player the video was perfect but i did notice the sound is about 3-4 seconds in front of the picture...what could be the problem? i posted the link so you guys could maybe find where the problem lies. Thanks for any help, i am anxious to star burning dvd's. thanks in advance.