I've been burning .bin's with cdrwin since 95, so yeah, I know that they need .cue's

I thought that was obvious...but anyway, the issue was cdrwin even detecting my iomega 12x cdrw, which it doesn't do, as for nero, I have 5.0, but when I try to "burn from image file", the only choices are .nrg files or .iso...no options for .bin's...
I'll try the winaspi trick, thanks.