Can I add an A/V outport onto my laptop so that I can take some of these VCDs off my computer and put them on tape? I would just put them in my DVD player, but they won't play on there right. They play just fine on my computer.

yes there is - i would do a little more digging, but this is the first thing that came up when i Googled "usb video out" :
http://www.eskapelabs.com/myvideo.html

you could also look for a PCMCIA video capture card, i think there a few available (i think Orange Micro even makes one)

Yay! I'll check those out. Thanks!