Hey Wither..
I'm going to put Picture It 2001 and 2002 on the XP.  A Lightscribe drive has drivers to color code and or put pictures onto a disk of any kind, just like if you bought a movie disk and you can see the graphics and pictures and well whatever on the disk.  Soooo, this machine came with one drive and it had the lightscribe on it.  I went to the lightscribe site and apparently they have the drivers there for it.  Also, I have the entire Microsoft suite to establish in which I now have a trial to use, its a joke.  In the suite I have word, calender, well lots of goodies.  I did use a how do I say this...hacker job on that product key and its holding but not for long.
That's what lightscribe is.  Listen, I am burdening you all here, dont worry about this, I will figure it out.  I am re-vamping this machine so I too am hesitant, I want it to work, not freak out on me.  
Jadelyn