Instead of burning a disc of programs that I will use across windows installs, I will use this list. This will help to make sure programs are up to date.

Gaim

Thunderbird

Firefox

Itunes

7zip

Divx

J2SE

FireFTP

MozBackup

Thinkpad R52 Drivers

Adobe Reader

Non-downloadable:

Microsoft Office

Photoshop

Visual Studio 2005

Sql Server 2005