Burning individual music AIFFs using a CUE file

Hi,
I want to burn a CD using individual AIFF music files (one AIFF for each track on the album) and an accompanying CUE file, which includes all the information about gaps between tracks etc.
I cannot find anything that can do this for me: I've tried Toast but that only seems to work with BIN/CUE pairs, and iTunes doesn't recognise the CUE file.
Any help will be appreciated!
Thanks,
Sean

Aren't CUE files more of a PC-thing?
The "Mac way" to make an exact copy of a CD would be to use a disk image. If you've acquired a bunch of AIFFs and a CUE to go with them, I'd suggest you follow PT's advice and set the gaps manually in Toast. Evidently, the files you have obtained have not been ripped with Mac-burning in mind.
If you're copying a CD you own, make a disk image of it.

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