Burn Folder Question

Im trying to burn some pictures for printing and I've used the "Burn Folder" to group all the pictures that I wanted to burn into a cd. I was trying to use a Cd-RW but it seems that the "Burn Folder"doesnt recognized Cd-RW's. Is this so, or is there any work around of using Cd-RW's for the "Burn Folder"? I end up gathering the pics again and just burned it using Toast. Thanks in advance.

The Burn Folders do work with CD-RWs, but you need to first erase the disk using Disk Utility (assuming the disk has been written to at least once before).

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