Corrupted gaps when trying to burn audio CD without gaps

I've tried to burn a mixed song set as a normal audio CD. I had about 20 seperate titles that should play seamless. First I tried Toast 8, setting the gap length to 0 seconds. In Toast I checked the result, and everything sounded perfect. But when I burnt it, the result on CD was somehow corrupted, it seems that at the beginning of the titles one or two seconds are missing. Prefs were set to "Disc-at-once", of course.
The I tried the same with iTunes: Prefs were set to "no gaps", the whole thing sounded well in the playlist, but the resulting CD was again botchy.
I burnt many CDs like that with all my older Macs, this is the first time I have these problems, and the first time I try this on my Alu-iMac with 10.5.
So I really don't know what went wrong. Is it the drive, is it Leopard?
Please help!

I have the same exact problem trying to burn a disc with iTunes using an external CD/DVD drive. I'm also running OS 10.4.11, but on a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo Macbook with 2 GB RAM. My external drive is a Samsung SE-S084C/RSBN.
Has anyone out there found a fix?

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