Well, I'm guessing I either got a defective Wii, or I am misunderstanding how the blue Disc Light is suposed to work.  I assumed it light up when you put in a game disc, thats a no go for me.  So then I figured, maybe it light up when the disc drive was empty, once again no!  I did set it up last night so I could send Email between my Wii and my personal email address.  And the Disc Light will illuminate when I have a message waiting to be read, but if it is suposed to light up times other than that, I think my system is broken.