Let him order what he wants...
Once the RIAA or the Microsoft police send the company a hate letter (or a current employee dumps the company's customer account DB to disk when he leaves to work for a competitor), you can have a yard sale with all those 'extra' burners.
And yes, zips are an issue also, as well as the happy PDAs with 256mb compactflash cards.
It all comes down to, how important is your data.
