does anyone know if a program exists that will automatically group files/folders together into groups of a specific size for burning later on? i have a bunch of files that i want to back up onto multiple cds/dvds but i don't want to have to manually group them together myself.

I would also like a program like that, a backup that doesn't rely on software to "rebuild" the backup, just the actual files and folders on CD/DVD.

Yes there is a program to do it and works well and It’s FREE thanks Kyle from KC Software

http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?ignition

thanks coathi, ignition looks almost exactly like what i'm looking for except i can't seem to get it to "Automatically create folders for each optimized CD" like it says on the website and it also looks like i can't have the file lists arranged alphabetically, which would severely limit its usefulness to me. are neither of those possible?

I have one developed if I can get it to burn the cd's. It uses a folder structure of
Apps
Catagory
Programs
Catagory
Programs
It fills the cd to within 2mb