Error when trying to burn cds

Every time I use itunes to burn a cd it gets about halfway done, then finishes the disk saying that there was a medium write error. Can someone tell me exactly what this is and what can be done to fix it? I have not attempted to burn with another program because i don't know of any free ones that are decent. Please help.

i have a similar problem.
in Itunes i get the medium write error prob and the disk is spit out, never to be used again.
to remedy this i tried 2 other types of CD media - have now used Verbatim, TDK, and Sony.
The problem occurred in all.
I lowered the burn speed to 4x, and the error disappeared, sometimes, however the 'complete' discs that resulted would almost always get to the 4th track and would start skipping a little. after finally reaching the end of the track, the remaining tracks would not play at all. what would happen is that the track number would appear on the CD player was the track number, but then no recognition of track length, and no ability to play beyond this track.
i then tried to do some audio CD's thru Finder, and the same problem occurred as above.
then i d/l-ed "Burn" to see if another program would work. it didn't, the same thing happened.
i have had a suggestion to re-run the original disk that came with my macbook, but this will be a tough task in trying to find it.
does the problem sound like a hardware or software prob?

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