Audio CD's won't show in Finder, Disk Utility or iTunes

The last few months represent a downward spiral for importing music or audiobooks on CD. If I pop in a dad CD or DVD the Finder immediately shows it on the desktop. Same with movie DVD's and blank media. But put in an audio disk and its like Mac OS 10.5 doesn't know what to do. It mounts the disk, shows it in the finder and iTunes for a half second before it disappears. The disk is still in the drive but not showing anywhere so I open disk utility which takes several minutes to load, or if its already open, will give me the spinning beach ball for 3-5 minutes. Then it usually shows the CD is there but unmounted. I tell it to mount it. Sometimes it does but takes several more minutes to show in the Finder, other times is mounts and then unmounts again as fast as the first time. Sometimes the finder will freeze up for several minutes. Frustrating and confusing. The drive is good, was recently replaced and as you can see, it works fine with other media. I've played with system prefs regarding CD's & DVD's, as well as iTunes prefs when a disk is inserted. No change.
Any solutions or posts with similar issues?

Sorry for not getting back to you before.
Since it's only a problem in one account, there's a bad file in your account that is causing the problem. Most often these are bad preference files, which are found in your home/Library/Preferences folder.
But in your case I'm not sure which file it could be.
You can narrow it down by moving stuff out of there in blocks, and see if the problem is fixed. If not, move them back, move some other stuff out, and try it again. Repeat this until you find the bad file and trash it.

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