Burning mp3 files with SuperDrive - first 10 sec of each song missing

Hello music fans,
When I burn mp3 songs to a CD  using SuperDrive on a MacBook Air (mid 2012), the first 10 seconds of every song are not playing.
This had never happened to me before using other drives. I tried all sorts of tricks, disks and programs and everything points to the SuperDrive. When I play the disc on the computer  all is fine. The issue shows when playing the disc on a Sony mp3 disc player which usually never had such issues before when I used Tiger and another burner.
FYI burning regular CDs works OK.
Does anybody have this problem as well?
Thanks,
Marin

As Chris already answered, Copy To Play Order basically locks down the play order of the playlist so it shows up that way in the iPod. If you simply sort the playlist with a certain header in iTunes, once the playlist goes to the iPod, the iPod doesn't know or respect that sort order. But if you Copy To Play Order, then you lock down the order of the playlist.
I am sticking with iTunes 6 simply because it isn't broken, so I have no reason to upgrade and risk issues. Plus, upgrading iTunes requires me to also upgrade QuickTime to version 7 which presents a number of potential issues with my system. Mac OS 10.3.x does not always play nicely with QT7 and I don't want to risk not being able to properly use other QT dependent Apps like iTunes, iMovie, and iDVD. Right now my system is perfectly stable and operating very nicely. Since I am not interested in dropping $130, or whatever it is, to upgrade the Mac OS, I am not interested in upgrading QT or iTunes and potentially FUBARing my setup.
Same with my iPod. My fifth generation iPod still uses Firmware version 1.0 (the original version). I think they are up to something like v1.2.x now. Again, the iPod works perfectly so why update? Especially since many of the updates only add features to support other Apple products I don't want and in some cases even remove features I do want (being able to toggle the LCD backlight using the menu button for example).
Patrick

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