FF7 video/burn problem

[This Space For Rent]

I'm fairly new to emulation, and I'm encountering two problems here.
I'm running ePSXe 1.6
Pete's Open GL 1.76
Eternal SPU Plugin 1.41
All on an IBM t34 thinkpad (with factory video cards and such, so nothing fancy. I think it's an ATI, but not a Radeon)

I burned the game disk onto a CD and tried to run it yesterday. The first time I did it I got an error message, but I think that's because that disk didn't copy correctly. So I tried again using Roxio to burn it this time. I don't get the error message, but the screen just stays black. Not sure what the problem could be because the actual PSX disk will run well enough. Any suggestions here would be great (since this is my friends disk and I can't keep it forever . . . or shouldn't keep it anyway)

Anyway, I decided to forget about that for a minute and actually do a little playing. Things seem to run alright (fixed the FPS thing. . . that seemed pretty bizarre), but whenever I enter a battle the part of the screen containing the menu windows, limit bars, etc. is blacked out. There is one small blue rectangle that seems to have most of some kind of number displayed in it, but I was fairly sure that wasn't how it was supposed to look.

So I can't seem to run a burned copy and display during battle scenes is faulty. I gave swaping out my graphics plugins a shot, but that didn't seem to help. If you guys could at least point me in the right direction (patches, new plugins, whatever) that would be much appreciated.

[hagbard]

About the menus, take a look at the "Special game fixes" to select the fix for FF7. Also try the "nice" settings on Pete's GPU and set the "Framebuffer" value as high as possible.

As for the CD problems, give a try peops or sapu CDr plugins, and select your CD/DVD-ROM drive on them. Also you might need to install ForceASPI (forum search), or use the Windows 2000/XP IOCTRL (set it up on peops too)

Last but not least, I'd recommend you using ePSXe 1.5.2 (find it on the official web site), PSXeven or SSSPSX