No, it just spits out the CD without any sort of dialog box. I'm not sure if it can write CD's or not, but once I get ahold of a CD-RW, I'll soon find out.

As for the connection, the help menu told me the same thing, that I won't need software. It's probably just because I didn't do that TCP/IP thing. But one thing I was wondering about...I have a phone cord, but the iMac has two different ports that it could go into. One has the picture of a phone with dots on it, and the other is a double-sided arrow. Which one should I plug it into?

As for the clock, what you described is EXACTLY what happened. However, if it's a dead battery, I may not be able to replace it immediately. Is this battery easy to get into, or will I have to take apart the whole machine?

Thanks,

-Apostrophe