Oh and i should mention that i tried to connect it to the laptop which has 4 USB speed 2 sockets and it worked absolutely fine. So it rules out that the external housing is faulty.
Heres what i bought:
http://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk/acata...l_Section.html
{AC 5058} << This is what im talking about in the above post.
{AC 5041} << No problems with this yet, its for an internal DVD burner which i havent bought yet.