Disc burner or software not found - trying to burn to internal combo drive

For whatever reason, my wife "Software Update"-installed 10.4.11 and iTunes 7.5 on her aging 800MHz iBook.
Now, as she goes to burn CDs in iTunes, she gets the message "disc burner or software not found"
The mechanism is the stock, internal Combo Drive, and IS seen by the advanced preferences in iTunes, as well as when making a "burn folder" in the finder.
I have repaired permissions as an earlier thread suggested, and even downloaded and reinstalled iTunes 7.5 (and re-repaired permissions), but it's not helping.
???

thanks, but rebooting/restarting, even zapping PRAM didn't help here. (+repairing permissions etc as mentioned above)
Still stuck

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