I found a way to burn my recovery discs. To do this, it is necessary to trick DataSafe Local by having two drives.  Reason for this is that DataSafe Local SAYS that Vista is supported but will not let you install it on Vista. I inserted a different drive (unhooked my original) and installed Windows 7.  I then downloaded and installed the Dell Datasafe Local software onto the drive.  I shutdown the machine and plugged up my original drive as the secondary after telling the BIOS to boot the Windows 7 drive as the primary.  When you install Dell DataSafe Local, it creates a recovery partition of its own.  I simply copied the contents of my old recovery partition to the new partition, overwriting most things in it.  I then told DataSafe to burn factory restore discs.  Afterwards, I tried the discs on a small spare drive I had that was questionable.  The discs install the original operating system, software, and drivers.   So this works if you have the extra drives handy.  The third drive was just to test the recovery discs without messing with the other two drives.  Technically, I could have used the Windows 7 drive since I am going to format it to store all my data and install Windows 7 on the original drive.  The reason is it is bigger.  The original drive is 600GB and the secondary is 400GB.
I have a Studio 540 Vista Home Premium.  I wish to crate factory restore discs like you can with all other remotely modern computers.  However, the machine was purchased before April 2009 so DataSafe Local was not pre-installed.  Nor was any other factory discs burning software.  The machine did not come with discs.  Does any have an idea as to how I can burn these recovery discs?  I tried to download the Datasafe Local but it will not install since I do not have Windows 7.  My machine is out of warranty so no help from Del support.  The manuals tell how to use the factory restore but not how to create the recovery discs.  I really need these in case my drive starts to go bad.
Burning factory restore discs