CD disk drive noisy, will not burn CD

On my laptop, MacBook Pro - - - While in iTunes I cannot burn CDs if I have been listening to music for any period of time. I can successfully burn a CD only when I initially launch iTunes.
Usually I am listening to music, create playlists and want to burn CDs; when I insert the blank CD it appears to start to burn but after 20 seconds it starts making horrible scratchy noise and aborts the burn.
Is my disk drive going bad, is it fixable, what's going on? The closest qualified service center is over an hour away......so I'd rather have a general idea of what's going on before I make the trip.

I would try cleaning it with the dry brush type cleaning disks. It always helped when the drive in my previous MBP got cranky.
I'd try repairing disk permissions as well as resetting the PRAM, as this would appear to be a software issue. If the drive refuses to function correctly at all times, only remedy is replacement since they are not serviceable. If out of warranty, may be cheaper to get an external drive instead.

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You were given some very good advice on your other post. I ran into a very similar issue when I had installed iTunes and the end result was that I had to do a factory recovery back to a day one condition. Then I had to do a slow software installation process, checking every time I had installed a third party application. I got tripped up a couple of times but determined that I had to install iTunes before installing other CD/DVD media programs (Roxio,WMP and Cyberlink).
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Unplug the computer's power cord.
Wait fifteen seconds.
Attach the computer's power cord.
Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on
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