Burning CD's for PC's on a Mac

Hi everyone,
I recently hired a designer to put together a CD-ROM for a client. Nothing fancy, simply a menu screen (authored in Flash) containing links to video files and external URL's. He uploaded the contents of the disk to a server, I downloaded them, and was about to burn them onto a CD to ship to the client. (the contents contain an 'autorun.exe' file which will launch the CD's menu screen upon inserting into a PC's drive, and a Flash projector for Macs.)
I was about to burn the CD, when I was told that a CD burnt on a mac wouldn't necessarily work on a PC. Is this true? I am using an Intel Mac Pro.
Thanks in advance.

Depends on what files on burnt onto the CD. Mac files burnt on Mac won't work on PC, PC files burnt on Mac will work on PC. Files are files, just 0's and 1's. Doesn't matter what system writes the 0's and 1's they're still just 0's and 1's.
Can't client simply download files from server and burn CD themselves? Eliminates the middle man (yourself)
Instal Windows on your MP and test using parallels to see if CD works on PC.

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