CD/DVD Burner automatically Locking disc no matter what

Every time I burn (my images to) a file - even though I "unlock" in Get Info - the disc gets locked preventing me from dragging items off the disc. There seems to be a default mechanism that I am unable to override on this machine. Any ideas? (when I select Burn Disc the little lock appears on the folder icon as it burns)

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I grasp that your optical drive is not being recognized in your computer. Here is a link to CD/DVD Drive Is Not Detected (Windows Vista). As the link in your post was to a microsoft document for Vista, I assume that is what you were running.
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