Floppies are also unreliable as heck these days...like Evyn, I've had brand new, just unwrapped name brands fail on me.
However, good lords and floppy disks work in funny ways - I've got a set of system 6 disks that I made using verbatim 800 k disks some time in the late '80s, and they still work as good as new. =]
I have a couple of boxes of disks from then, they still work too. I think that the price pressure on disks pushed them so hard to cut costs, that they're making siginificantly crappier disks today.
Also, 800K disks are going to retain data longer than 1.44 mb disks because of the volume of iron oxide use to make a singlke bit on those disks is so much larger.
I don't know about windows XP (my celeron 333 loves '98 too much...), but I've had a wee problem with burning discs in OS X (10.1.5, mind you, I don't know if 10.2 fixed it). Using a G4 Quicksilver, Disc Burner (gasp) won't burn multi-session discs. A bit annoying - it inspired me to boot to OS 9 and drag out my toast install disk.
There's a multisession burner utility out there:<http://www.sentman.com/burner/index.php>
Completely off topic, does anyone know if there's been a Carbon release of OpenOffice?
Nope, not yet, but it runs quite happily under Apple's X11 client.
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