DVD writers showing up as generic hard disks

[leica]

I'm sure there is something I need to tweek in the registry to change this -- essentially windows explorer is seeing my burners as "local disks" and not removable media; as a consequence I can't burn from anything except Nero....I really want to be able to burn form the Intervideo apps and iTunes as well. This is driving me mad. I tried changing the drive letters and windows explorer sees them as cdroms for a second then back as localdisk(s).