CD burn error a.k.a. error 4261

i make a playlist of about 20 songs then put in my disc (which i know can hold 20 songs because media player can burn even more songs onto it) and then click burn disc. it burns the first two songs fine and then after that either error 4261 or 4260 comes up or it finishes burning the disc and plays the first two songs fine then the rest are just clicks and fuzzes. please help me out. why won't it burn the discs properly. p.s. it used to burn discs fine and then it just stopped burning them all teh sudded a few weeks ago. i also have an optorite cd burner. please help.

can you post your DVD/CD diagnostics for us?
in itunes, go "help > run diagnostics", select DVD/CD diagnostics, and paste the complete results into a reply.

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