Can't copy files to desktop after mounting CD

I'm having a weird problem - when i insert a cd, i can't copy any files to my desktop. my internal hd is partitioned into 2 drives - 1 containing the system & 1 that only contains media. once i insert the disc, i cant copy any files to the system disk - not from the cd to the desktop or from the "media" partition to the desktop.
basically, everything is fine until i insert the cd - then i'm not able to copy anything to my desktop. the issue remains after i eject the disc - i'm forced to logout & bak in to resolve it. the cd is a disc I burned not very long ago - i need to get the files off of the disc, so i'm in a major bind.
please let me know if you know why this would be happening or how to resolve it. i tried repairing permissions & running disc utility.
thanks!

I just had a client with the same trouble - she has a lot of files on DVD-R, burned in a mix of UDF and HFS+. Today she called me up saying that she couldn't copy the files from the disc. I took control of her machine with ARD and found that dragging the files from the disk to any other place, be it Desktop, Home or even another volume, the cursor changed into a white circle with a slash through it. I was able to open each document and save as a new document elsewhere - so I know the files are good. The strange thing is that the same thing is appearing on her old machine (a dual G4 running 10.4.9) as her new machine (MacPro quad with 10.4.10). I had her download and re-apply the 10.4.10 combo update and some of the problems were fixed. Some. Then 10 minutes later the problem reasserted itself. Strange errors popped up in the Console to do with disk arbitration and the following "KernelEventAgent[29]: tid 00000000 received unknown event (12)". What the **** is going on here?

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