People will want to shoot me for saying this, but here goes:
Buddha Card + IDEFix will make your life soooooo much easier here! Yes, & it is fairly cheap too!
Not only will it let you use a cheap IDE CD/DVD-ROM drive (with NO fuss), but it recognizes ZIP drives too (with native drivers, boot from 3.1 Install floppy & there it is...awesome for backups!).
PZ.
