CD Burner will not burn

I am wondering if my CD burner on my Apple 12 inch Powerbook G4 is broken? I tried burning a CD of a playlist and this is what happened:
-insert disc, checking media, click burn disc to start
-initializes
-starts writing
-Canceling disc burn .....this may take a minute or two
-ejects CD
-red stop sign with white exclamation mark and iTunes logo - The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.
I have tried different playlists with different formats(WAV and mp3) and still no luck?...I tell ya, I have mixed emotions about Apple's laptops...so far I have had the "black screen of death" where the machine will NEVER go in sleep mode(which will eventually where out the screen) and now this?
any help would be appreciated, is there a diagnostic function I can run to check the machine? anything?
thanks in advance! : (

This is funny. Not your situation, but as I was trying to help someone else, I came across this:
"To check the size of the normally invisible /Volumes directory on the active startup volume, open a new Finder window. Select the startup volume in the list at the left, then choose column view (the one at the right of the three views). From the Finder’s Go menu, choose Go to Folder, and paste in:
/Volumes
The /Volumes directory becomes visible in the Finder; find its size by selecting it and typing Command I. My /Volumes directory is reported to be 12K.
Try to determine where your various caches are. There may be files left over from burning CDs or DVDs. The One Step DVD option in iDVD has been reported to leave files in the directory /private/tmp... "
I wonder if that's where your temporary file went. I hope this doesn't confuse you more. But remember I was talking about how if you burn a CD and it doesn't go through all the way, the burn file will stay around?
See if you can solve it with that.
Just for crediting purposes, the quote from above comes from:
http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=770243&page =0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=31&fpart=1

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