I can fiddle a bit more next week.  I mean, my 7100 is from 1994.  I'd be surprised if this were a physical issue.  It's never had problems reading GCR disks (or writing).  The disk I was reading in Bernie was an 800k DD disk I use to transfer stuff between the SE and the 7100.  It is possible that the Write Protect error is equivalent to an error I sometimes get trying to initialize DD disks that I've already written to.

I assumed Printshop could be found online lol.  I don't actually have a medium for it and I'm not sure where I got it.  I was just curious if I could read it and if so what possible methods there were therefor.