Ghost, my jumper settings are fine and I don't have the CD-RW connected to any cables.

Und3rtak3r, restarting my computer is something I try to avoid since when I do that I kick my brother off the internet since he's online via the network we setup. All my CD burning software is up-to-date but I don't see the relation between the two, since I'm not using the CD burning software (Nero in this case) to access my drive in anyway yet. Also, the IDE cable is brand new, straight out of the box (round if it helps). It does do some twists and turns to get to the DVD-RW drive lol but not enough to cause it to stop working properly.