Unfortunately I have found that in the case of this particular model, neither Windows XP or the most commonly used program, this being NERO, recognizes the drives ability. Both will SAY that the drive is a DVD RW, but when you try to burn dvd's, it claims that the drive is incapable of producing the specified compilation.
However, there is a very easy solution for this. WinDVD DOES recognize the drives ability and accepts the compilations readily.