Cannot play songs on an iTunes burned CD on any CD player except my iMac?

I have recently purchased many songs from iTunes. However when I download the songs and burn them to a CD, the CDs will not play properly on my car's CD player. For example, I purchased the song "Safari" by "Steps Ahead" and burned a CD. While that song on the burned CD would play properly on the iMac, the song will NOT play properly on any other CD player that I own -- the song contains two notes e.g. ta-da, and when I play the song on my non-Apple CD players, the ta-da becomes ta-da-ta-da-ta-da-ta-da-ta-da-ta-da-ta-da-ta-da-... In essence, the CD player goes into an infinite loop and will not play past those two notes! What is wrong? I have noticed this unnerving characteristic on a few other songs but did not contact Apple (I could not figure out HOW - the "Contact Us" option seems to go nowhere!!). Some songs play properly on all of my CD players but this song refuses!! I do not need the frustration of worrying if the song will play properly on my car's CD player or my in-house stereo CD player. The 99-cents is not important - I just want the music without the aggravation and the CDs that I need to discard because of the defective recordings. Any help will be appreciated. I am using TDK Music CD-RW CDs 80 MIN 700MB. Thank you.
PowerPC G4 (3.3)   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

CD-RW disks are unreliable as audio CDs. Try a good
brand of CD-R disks and see if you have better luck
with those.
And you'll want to confirm that your car's player
supports burned CDs; not all players do.
Thanks for your reply. I have three SONY CD players (one is for recording to a minidisc) and every one of them misplays that song. They are all supposed to play CD-RW discs. I have used the TDK CDs before on iTunes but only certain songs seem to go wacky -- it's like a voodoo curse on those songs!! Why do 99% of the songs play correctly but 1% will not?
PowerPC G4 (3.3)   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

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