Backing up purchased videos

I'm sorry this is probably a really stupid question but my computer saavy is limited...
I know how to backup my purchased tracks, by burning my Purchased Music playlist onto a CD-R.
But how do I backup purchased videos? Thanks for the help. Again, sorry, probably a dumb question.

I usually backup onto a CD-R. Needless to say that didn't work. I tried a DVD-R but that didn't work either since you can only copy onto something in the CD-R drive, apparently. I was thinking about buying some CD-RWs to try, and then saw this post about iTunes not allowing you to burn videos.
I don't get that. After I bought the videos a message popped up from iTunes encouraging me to backup my "valuable" music. What other way is there other than burning it?
How do I use Windows to do it? They're not showing up on my Windows Media, My Documents, My Video, and I tried a search in for video and nothing turned up. I have Windows XP.

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