I have been searching for months and can't find what I'm looking for so this tells me I may not know what the heck I'm actually looking for.

I have windows media center. I record LOST and now I want to edit out the commercials and put it on a dvd that I will be able to use in my dvd player in the living room to watch on TV. Today I used media center to put it on a DVD+RW and out of curoisty I put it in my dvd player and it actually played on the TV. I was like soooo happy about this until

Here is what I am working with: Windows XP Media Center 2005; 250 GB hard drive; 1 GB RAM; 16xDVD ROM plus 16XDVD +/RW double layer drives; Roxio My DVD LE; Record Now Audio; Record Now Copy and Record Now Data came with the Dell system. I then installed Roxio Easy Media Creator 7. No matter which one I use when I go to the file where my dvr ms recorded files are they do not come up.
So, I'm begging for

Thank you for any and all help. I truly appreciate all help.