CD burning/Adaptec problems

I have a Dimension 4100 bought in Spring '01. It came with the Adaptec DirectCD Wizard 3.01d_D5, Easy CD Creator 4, and an LG  CD-RW CED 8080B. I only started saving my many pictures on CD earlier this year, and burned a cd during the summer, otherwise I haven't used this program, which is very confusing to me.

I apologize that this is going to be a bit long. I'm not great with the pc, fearing I'm going to cause a meltdown and lose everything, but I know how to use what I need. With that, I need help in English! 

Every time I use DirectCD, the end results are different. I have successfully saved pix on 80-minute music cd-r's. Sometimes I can delete pix from disks, sometimes it doesn't let me. It usually lets me access the saved pix, but sometimes doesn't let me edit them.  Sometimes the pop-up window tells me the disk is readable only, and tells me how to go about making it writable, but it doesn't work. 

This summer, I wanted to print out some of my pix that were on the first disk I created, and went to a local store to use the Kodak Picture Maker as I don't have a printer, and this was successful.  Sometime later, I saved other shots to a disk and wanted to print these too, but the Picture Maker couldn't read the pix saved on the disk. I went home to check and the pix were there. I tried saving onto another disk and took this to the store, and still no pix. In the meantime, I have had to throw out a couple of disks because I couldn't delete the jpgs from them and had no need for unusable disks. And I probably ended up formatting each of these disks differently from each other because I just don't understand the program or something.

Do I need an updated version od DirectCD, a new program, or what? Are there instructions in how to use these programs in English so I use it correctly each time? I'm sure this isn't really difficult!

Please help!  thanks alot!