Burning Question (unreliable Toast)

Hi.
A problem and some questions.
My Toast (6.1.1) keeps freezing and Force Quit doesn't work.
I have deleted pref files (found two), reinstalled, cretaed new user, to no avail.
That's the problem. Now the Q's:
1
I prefer Toast over DVDSP as you can control burning speed. But having said this, I did burn today from DVDSP (I have the bundled version that comes with FC Studio 5) and it plays well on two stand alone DVD players I tried. I used Verbatim X16 media. Is burning speed still an issue?
2
If I go buy Toast 7 will it stop hanging on me?
3
Any ideas as to how I can fix my Toast?
(First thing this morning I was able to use Toast, the computer had been off all night... does that make a difference?)
Thanks a mill,
D
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) FCP 5.1.1
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) FCP 5.1.1

1 I prefer Toast over DVDSP as you can control burning speed. But having said this, I did burn today from DVDSP (I have the bundled version that comes with FC Studio 5) and it plays well on two stand alone DVD players I tried. I used Verbatim X16 media. Is burning speed still an issue?
I prefer Toast also. As to the speed issue, it may be a non issue if they are playing okay. Where are the DVDs going? Clients? Friends & family? Youself? If clients then you need to be absolutely sure (different story if replicating discs and this is just samples, you can explain the issue of whaat cause playback problems from time to time), the later, you can always fix it.
If I go buy Toast 7 will it stop hanging on me?
Not sure
Any ideas as to how I can fix my Toast? (First thing this morning I was able to use Toast, the computer had been off all night... does that make a difference?)
Sounds like you did some of the troubleshooting, have you tried also repairing permissions or run diskwarrior? Sounds like if shutting it off then starting it up cured the problem, the boot up clean up repairs may have helped. Are you using an external Burner? Do you have any FW peripherals attached? Sometimes I have had hangs like that from bad cables or power supply coming slightly off, look liked power but not really getting to the device. After the reinstall to you go back to 6.1.1 (or is that your install?) I had an earlier version of 6 that I had to upgrade to 6.1.1.
Has the sytem changed recently? (It sounds like Toast had been okay until now?)

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