[decadence]

No idea really all I can suggest is a) CD-RW drive is faulty or b) try using different software to burn the CDs. You can try making sure you're using branded CDs but I don't think that makes too much difference. Try downloading a copy of Nero from shareware.com or nero.com or wherever. Some people like it; there's also (Roxio) EasyCD Creator but I don't know if that comes as shareware. Or XP allows you to drag and drop to a CD drive and then click on the balloon thing in the taskbar system tray which appears to burn files to the CD. Also try to make sure you're not doing load of other things on the PC at the same time, just burn the CD on its own. That's all I can come up with.