Burn to Disc Grayed Out

History: I burned one disc about a month ago and have not burned any since. In that time, I did contract some spyware that kept shutting iTunes down before it fully initialized. Throught the forum, I was able to locate the offending agent and eliminate it.
Now, I went to burn a disc yesterday and the option is grayed out from the menu and burn icon does not appeare in the upper right.
I tried several different song groups, some purchased from iTunes and others I've ripped myself. The problem remained. A full reboot did not fix the problem either.
My CD-RW shows up in iTunes, so that's not the problem either.
Any idea?

Any updates on this thread? The same thing is happening to me and I'm not sure what to do. I've reinstalled, created new playlists, etc. all to no avail. I was able to burn CD's fine a few weeks back and now all of a sudden I don't have the burn disc button and the option is greyed out in the File menu.
Thanks.

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