CD Burner freeze on G5 Dualie...

I'm trying to burn an Audible audio book from iTunes 9.0.1 on my PowerMac G5 dual processor (PowerMac7,3). I have been able to burn music CDs fine, but on a book where the burn spans several CDs I find that the burn will stop without an error code during the finishing step of one of the CDs. The computer just sits there saying that it's finishing the CD, and if I try to quit it will warn me that the CD will be damaged if I quit the program before the burn is done.
I have a newer MacBook that can burn the same audio books without this problem, so I am wondering if this is a problem with the CD/DVD drive on the PowerMac. The PowerMac has a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-117D, while the MacBook has a Matshita DVD-R UJ-868.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? How were you able to fix it?
Thanks in advance.

Problem resolved!
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