Playing a CD in my car

I bought a 97 Lexus recently with a CD player; burned a CD in iTunes, stuck it in the car CD player and voila! Nothing. It can't read the songs. Will iTunes plus solve that, or will I be unable to play anything burned from inside Itunes?

It plays cd's burned from a windows computer, NOT using iTunes. It does NOT read songs burned straight onto a CD using a Mac-- AIFF files. My thinking was that the lack of DRM restrictions might make those songs readable by the car player. But maybe not-- now I'm thinking that it's the encoding that Apple uses, whether you're in iTunes or not-- that makes the song unreadable, not the DRM restrictions.
But if AIFF is basically identical to WAV, why can I play CD burned from a windows-using friend, but I can't play one that I burned?
The owner's manual says nothing of interest about the CD player-- just that it's an option, and it goes over the basic controls on it.

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