I've just burnt my save games to cd

(and the adapted Town Avi files whilst I was at it)

are the save games in the folder save all I need if I update my computer / reinstall etc ??

BTW it looks like my computer thinks they are half life 2 saves

Yes. The saved game is enough. You will be able to continue the game from the saved game file after reintalling the game.

Excellent I feel much safer

Both my W and W characters and level 40 Morrowind characters suffered fatal hard drives crashes which whisked them from this world

Wouldn't hurt to add roster.dat as well but that file is not critical.

Glad to hear you have some safe saves!! :D

Hmmm... I thought the roster.dat file *was* critical. Far more than the .avi files... you can just uncompress them again if needed.

I believe that roster.dat holds your base character information. Without that, your characters may not actually exist... :(