DVD-RW not working properly

Hello, I just want to be able to use my DVD-RW like a hard drive, like in windows. I'm new to mac, so maybe I'm missing something, but I simply dragged a file onto the RW, it copied to it, then I couldn't add anything else. I also have Toast if this would do what I want.... Thanks!

So just to clarify, if I want to make a disc that's a backup of all of my pictures, I would have to put all of the pics on the disc. Then when I take more pics, I would have to erase the entire disc, then copy all the files again?
I'm not actually using this for pics, so I'm not looking for something like flickr or a backup to another hard drive or anything like that. I'm looking to put all of my downloaded files onto a disc, that way if I ever wanted to reinstall one I could just throw in one disc, instead of using up HD space, or having to lug around a ton of discs. An external hard drive is out of question right now because I have a ton of RW discs, and no cash for a hard drive. Thanks.

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when i try to put in a CD/DVD it spits the disk out right away. after trying to put it in about five times or so, the drive takes it, makes its fancy noises to make me think that its reading the disk, but the computer doesnt recognize that it has one in the drive. sometimes it spits the disk out, but other times it will just keep it.
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