Well my primary problem has been with the initial writing successful, but then months or years down the road the information will have errors. If you back up a couple of 300MB files to a cd, all it takes is a couple little errors to render each file unretrievable. So according to what aetherh4cker said, my problem is cheap CD's.
As for floppy disks: I use them only for things like Symantec Drive Scrubber, Fdisk, DOS, Win98se Startup disk, Winxp installation disks (for those of us who's BIOS will not allow booting from a CD drive), Partitioning tools, Multi-OS start disk, recovery disks, and so on.
As it is now I don't have any way of reading DVD's on my computer, and I want to be able to back up all sorts of crap I download via bit torrent that aren't high priority, but I'd hate to part with some of this stuff and never be able to get it back once all forms of file sharing are perminantly illegal and wiped out of existence.
As for online storage, I recommend Xdrive.com, 5 gigs free, no file size limit (up to 5 gigs of course) and on my cable modem downloading tends to average 600MBps
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HP Pavilion 7920
901MHz Intel processor, 256MB SDRAM,
30GB & 250GB IDE Hard Drives (NTFS)
Audio= Intel 82801AA AC\'97 Audio Controller
Video= Intel 82810 Graphics Controller
OS= WinXP Pro / SP3 (32 bit)