Is this REALLY a DAM?! Cannot locate offline images!!

Question

The first thing I expect from a Digital Asset manager is that it can manage my Digital Assets ;-)
My Digital assets happen to be a lot of slides which I scanned in and which I keep on DVD's.
All files are just in the root of my DVD, no use sorting them in subfolders, they're just burned chronologically.
When I import my digital assets in Lightroom (keeping them in the original place), ALL my pictures on all my dvd's end up in ONE very big folder, named G:, the letter of my diskdrive.
Someone suggested: yes, but you can rename your folder after import to the volumename of your DVD (that's exactly what I would like to be the result of an import). Alas, you can't. First of all, if you try that, you don't rename the volume you just imported, you rename the name of the folder which keeps ALL of the foto's: All your pictures on All your DVD's seem to end up in the folder 'Slides078' or whatever you renamed G: to. And secondly, in no time Ligtroom renames the folder back to G:!
Another suggestion I keep seeing is: when you click the questionmark of an offline image, you get to see the original location as 'Foldername on Volumes\Volumename'. Again, I don't. All I get to see is: original location: "G:\filename"! I'm using Windows Vista; maybe, as someone suggested, it's an OS problem, and is the MAC version working fine...
I cannot figure out one way to get the Volumename of my DVD's (which I've written down on my DVD's, so that I can quickly find them) into Lightroom.
In other words, when I try to locate my offline images, all Lightroom is willing to tell me is: "This image is located on one of your many DVD's or CD's. Try to find it yourself, you lazy photographer!'
Do I really have to buy another DAM program to manage my offline images?!
I don't call this a Digital Asset Manager. I call this a HardDisk Manager with photoediting capabilities. No, not even that.
I call this a BIG BUG !!

Answer 1

You can blame LR that it doesn't use the Volume name for pictures just residing in the root directory of a disk. You are always on the save side if you put your images into folders.
The workaround is obvious: put your images never on the root directory but always into an folder with a name unique enough to find the disk if LR is asking for it.
If you have used plain DVD-R or DVD+R Media to archive your images you have to reburn to get a workable solution but this might also a good opportunity to switch to dvd-ram.
Side note: Archiving photos on DVD-R or DVD+R media is not save! With this media you risk data loss. There are quite some articles describing this. It is commonly agreed that DVD-RAM is much better suited for archiving puroses.
- with appropriate drivers you can use it like a hard drive filling it
step by step.
- you can change an update data files
- most of the newer DVD burner support DVD-RAM
- if not a DVD-RAM burner is not expensive (around 60$) and a very good investment
- if you do not like this idea store your files on portable hard drives
but not on DVD-R or DVD+R media.