Burning process never ends

When I try to burn a CD, everything works fine until it begins "finishing" the disc. This process never actually finishes. I've let it run for more than an hour. I've ruined a handful of CDs already

Had that a while ago, too with an old version of iTunes. I do not know why this happened. Although iTunes told me that it is still finishing the disc, I stopped that process and got the disc out of it's drive and I was surprised that the disc played fine.
If you use an old version, try to update your iTunes.
  Windows XP   iPod mini 2nd gen.

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