Error 4251, 4261 - Unable to burn CD-A w/ CD-R from misc. vendors

Help wanted:
Burning a CD-A always fails with the same error message, in v6.0 a 4261 (rare) and 4251 (most), since v6.02 only 4251.
The burning process starts, stops after some 2 minutes with a weird message, rough translated: "This burning process will now be stopped, please be patient."
The ejected CD-R is unreadable.
We tried CD-R from most major vendors like FUJI, TDK, Maxell etc.
We checked the hardware configuration with iTunes, everything seems to be right.
The common burning software (NERO from Ahead) reports no problems, multiple CD-A burned with NERO work fine.
All software is up-to-date, firmware DELL and PIONEER DVR-110 too.
PIONEER sent support answer: Ask Apple.
DELL Dimension 8300   Windows XP   PIONEER DVR-110, new

roger,
I need more information about your hardware configuration. Please run the iTunes Help menu -> Run CD diagnostics and post the output here.
Nothing changed in the iTunes burning engine between 6.0.1 and 6.0.2. What version of iTunes were you running where you didn't have a burn issue?

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