I'd always recommend a regular cd-burner for cd-burning. Any DVD-/+RW drive will not have the supported media list that a regular cd-burner will therefore you are stuck with using the top quality name brand only media like Fuji, Taiyo Yuden, etc and DVD-Burners do not always do as good of a job as a cd-burner in general burning of CD-R's. The only DVD-Burner that I thought was cool as a CD-Burner was the Optorites with the HD-Burn technology, only problem is those 1.4 gigabyte discs could only be read back in the Optorite which stinks.

My recommendation is have the DVD-Burner for just that, burning DVD's. Once you have that then I'd recommend a CD-RW/DVD Combo for ripping and cd-burning purposes. The Lite-On drives are good for this and I always will recommend my Samsung TS-H492A although when it comes to copy protections I don't know how my Samsung fairs but that is not what I use it for.