Album and Photo backup

Can someone advise me how to backup my albums in iPhoto, onto CD? Could I create a Folder on my Desktop named after the album, and then highlight the photos in the album and Export to that Folder? What is the best procedure to backup photos in the Library to CD? Would a similar procedure work This has likely been covered before, but I tried the Search Forum with no results pertinent to these two questions. Thank you.

Thanks Terence and I think we are making headway thanks to your patience! I prefer the File/Export route to a Folder that I make up on my Desktop and then burn to a CD. I realize that this is the way so that it can be used by Windows but an additional question I would have:
1...Is this still a good way to backup and archive the photos, ie; Can they still be put back into iPhoto with all their parameters intact, should that be required in the event of a loss of iPhoto pictures? If so then it seems to be the best method as it can be used for both Windows AND iPhoto.
2...Getting back to my original question, I'm assuming it will work with the Albums also.
I think I have found the 'Share'--on this version of iPhoto 4.03, I'm assuming the 'Burn' icon at the bottom of the screen is what may be referred to now as 'Share'.
Thanks again for your efforts and explaining the nuts and bolts of this. Hope it may help others also. Cheers.

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