The great CD drive mystery !!!

I recently decided to upgrade to a DVD writer ............ so I took out the old CD Rom drive and insert the new one (with all the correct settings etc). Started the PC up and everything was fine, games played, music played etc. Powered the PC down and on again a few times and each time it booted perfectly.
Went to install Nero 6, which came with the LG GSA4120B drive, and it crashed half way through, saying that it couldn't copy one of the files. So tried again and it crashed at exactly the same point. Thought it was a bit strange as things normally blow up when you go to run them and not just install them !!
So powered down and left it for the day.
The next day I booted up and everything seemed fine until I double clicked on the CD drive in My Computer ............... and the PC screen went black (as if on standby) ........... and the PC just died. Even the Reset button wouldn't work, I had to use the On/Off button at the back. Again and again it happened. Then it went to the next stage which was as soon as Windows started it did the same thing. I then took the drive out and put the old one back in and the same thing still happened.
The only way that I could get it to boot was to disconnect the CD drive altogether, and the PC runs fine. I've gone through Windows settings and motherboard BIOS settings and can't find anything which I would class as out of the ordinary.
So I thought I would install newer Geforce drivers to see what that would do and it still crashed if the CD drive was connected on the Secondary IDE as a Master. I thought I would try it as a Slave and the PC now boots but the weirdest thing happens ................. you can access the cd drives, play games fine, play music fine (using a CD that was in the PC when it booted) but if eject the CD tray, the PC crashes as before i.e. black screen ??!!!???
I'm at a loss .............. twenty years of PC'ing and for the life of me I can't work out the significance of the what happens when the tray opens for Windows to crash.
Please help someone ................. I been ready your forum for a few days and you guys seem to know your stuff.
PC mobo is MSI 6382e with AMD XP2000+ proc, graphics card MSI 8878 MX420.

If you search the MS knowledgebase I think you'll find how to restore the last good version of the Win98SE registry. Basically it goes like this:
1. Registry comprises 2 files which are something like system.dat & user.dat & you'll find them if you make Explorer display hidden & system files (in the root of C: I think but if not then search)
2. You should also find the same files with .bak extensions.
3. You need to reboot in DOS mode, rename the .dat files to e.g. .old, rename the .bak files to . dat & restart.
If you don't like what you get you can reverse the .old files back to .dat fiels and you are back to where you were.
All this may be too late if you have successfully booted with these problems because you will have overwritten the backups. I would suggest try a repair install of your OS, assuming you still have the CD.

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    The driver expects RGB data.  The actual color inks in the printer use CMYK but that is handled by the driver, the applications need to send RGB data to the driver. 
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