Dave,
I see you are from Mo. and will show annl I know.
I use a Sony RW cd and it has to be "closed out" before it can be copied to the hard drive. It is supposed to act just like an external CD drive thru the USB port but I cannot get it configured, and puttingg it on the hard drive gives me a backup.
To use the in ACI it is a piece of cake.
Just right click where you need a photo, go to the folder that the photos were copied to, select the file and hit open.
I usually have the photo floler open and can click it into a thumbnail before pasting it to ACI.
Because our work is so diverse(repos) rarely do i get to use a subject picture, thus they never go int the canister file.
summary, Sony CD photos work good with ACI. ed in arkansas