I am looking for a drive imaging software that can back an image up to DVDs, with a bootable disc for restoration. Opensource/free preferred if it exists. I have never really used much drive imaging software before, so I would like to learn what the options are.
Thanks!

I've historically used Powerquest with no problems... but they were bought out by Symantec in 2003 with their product merged and remarketed as "Ghost". I know you were looking for freeware... but if you are interested Ghost retails for $70 on the Symantec website.

Acronis True Image, Norton Ghost, and Paragon all have good reputations. DriveSnapshot is a free alternative if you only are imaging one drive. A simple search on Wikipedia or Google would have given you this handy reference page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_cloning#Software).

I use ghost.
Its especially handy as you can fit it on a floppy (for older computers.. who actually has those these days? :P)
or a flash drive (make it bootable)
Its DOS core program is ~1MB and that's ALL you need for it to work - so you can take a flash drive - format it with HPUSB key format utility (sorry, link changes like crazy, but google it and you should find it from HP) with a standard win98 boot image, then put your .gho (image) file in the main data of the drive (assuming its ~4GB which =~8GB "real" space - ghost has awesome compression)
And you can plug in your drive and restore in <5 mins.
You can even set up auto scripts in a batch file to run ghost automatically and restore "image.gho" when it runs - essentially unattended reimage.

Thanks rsambuca. That page was great.