Cannot Burn with lastest update. ...

I've burned lots of CD's from my PC using iTunes in the past. However, about 6 months ago, I ran into a problem where the CD/DVD player would 'disappear' and iTunes would tell me it couldn't find the software. At that point, the CD would not even show up in the 'My Computer' listing on the PC. Deinstalling the CD/DVD driver and rebooting would resolve this until the next time I tried it.

Now, after installing the latest version of iTunes (9.0.1.8) things have gotten much worse.

When I try to burn a CD everything proceeds as expected. I am told that the CD is being initialized, then the songs are being written and finally that it is being finalized. However, there's nothing on the CD when the process is done.

If I put a previously burned CD (one I did from iTunes) or another prerecorded CD, it reads it correctly and I can rip without a hitch. If I insert a blank CD, it never shows in the Devices section of the left panel in iTunes. I can click burn but after going through the steps, nada...

I've deinstalled the CD and rebooted to no avail. My PC can find the CD and can write to it without a problem. It is only iTunes that is getting confused.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dave

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