Disk Utility and burning problems

I'm in the process of trying to back up my new emac (OS 10.4.2). I bought some CDRW disks (4X, 700mb) and I can quick erase them--but I cannot burn to them. I have all the proper authorizations (as I am the administrator) and my computer does burn this type of disk. The burn icon is dimmed when I highlight the CD disk in "disk utility". It also doesn't show up on my harddrive. It is listed as read only. I've tried two.
Is there an authorization I'm missing? Something else?
(This has not been an easy switch, since I can't seem to get my old iMac to talk to the new eMac either. That is next on my list)
Christina

Christina Wilson,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Have you tried erasing the CD-RW disks before trying to use them? Insert the disk, open Disk Utility, select the CD-RW device, not the volume name (the device name is the one on top of the volume name), select the Erase tab, and see if the Erase button becomes active. After erasing, you may need to quit Disk Utility before the CD-RW blank will mount on the desktop (that's the case in 10.2.8; it may not hold for 10.4.2).
Have you tried running Disk Utility/ Repair Permissions on you new Mac yet? What about the maintenance scripts? A handy reference for this sort of OS X stuff is Dr. Smoke's The X Lab: The X-FAQs
There are a couple of current threads in the eMac networking forum on connecting to other Macs (including iMacs) using Setup Migration Assitiant to trnsfer files; you can also check out Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4: Transferring data with Setup Assistant / Migration Assistant FAQ

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