How do I burn a CD when I can't find it...

This is a ridiculously simple thing. I can't figure it out. I want to burn a CD from a flash memory drive. I inserted a black CD (and verified it was blank via System Profiler). My problem is two fold:
1. I can't find any application from which to start the CD burning.
2. a CD icon does not appear on my desktop or in my applications, so I don't know how to eject the CD either.
I'm a 15 year user of PCs. I'm not familiar with Macs. Please help!
Thanks,
Dan

When you insert a blank CD, you should be asked if you want to open it in the Finder or iTunes or whatever.* Open it in the Finder and it should show up on the desktop. If it doesn't show up on the desktop, go to the Finder, choose Finder -> Preferences, click the General icon in the window, and make sure the CDs, DVDs and iPods button is checked. Then just drag files onto the CD icon. When you're done, drag the CD to the trash icon on the dock -- you'll notice the trash changes to a burn icon. Drop it and it'll burn the disk.
* If you don't see this window, you may have set it so one of these actions is the default. Do iTunes or Disk Utility open automatically when you put in the blank disk? If so, you've got to go to System Preferences, then click the CDs & DVDs icon, and for the When you insert a blank CD item, make sure it's set to "Ask what to do" -- then the next time you insert a blank CD, you'll see the window I'm talking about.

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