1.
No your doing nothing wrong that is why the system is in place so that you can switch your activations between your PC and Laptop or between two PC´s or two Laptops or whatever combination you have.

2.
Without knowing the actual errors your getting i cant answer, safedisc protected games will show errors durign the backup this is normal, are you letting the image finnish or are you stopping it due to the errors.

3.
Its not drives that are blacklisted its software virtual drives etc, there are ways round this with the use of free programs like YASU

4.
The data type selection depends on the disc you are backing up and the protection it has check http://support.alcohol-soft.com/en/k...ng+image+files

5. As a purchased user of Alcohol why dont you apply for access to the Alcohol purchased users support forum, the answer to most of your questions and many more can be found there just send an email to support see here http://forum.alcohol-soft.com/index.php?showtopic=23801