Having problems buring unabridged iTunes audiobooks (not Audible)

Question

I need help. I just spent $100 on the Hitchhiker series. I bought it from iTunes rather than Audible because I'd never heard of Audible, and now it looks like I'm stuck. I'm trying to burn these files to CD-R to listen to at home.
These files come in PARTS, not chapters, each part running in excess of two hours. I've broken up each file into separate playlists for each part, as was recommended here on the boards and the iTunes help. I then spent the last three hours f*ing with the burner: every CD I tried to burn was spit back at me with a 4310 error, then with a 4280 error (I changed the burn speed which seemed to help, then just kept pushing the CD back in and eventually it would burn, but that's another post altogether).
My problem is this: when I played back my CDs to see if they worked THE CDS CUT OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF TRACKS. The second disk started in the middle of a sentence. When I load them into iTunes there's NO TAG INFORMATION so I have no idea what's on there, I just know from looking at the four tracks on a single disk, each one 20 minutes long, that that's definitely not the chapters. And finally, any and all help I can find here on the Apple site (in the discussions and the manuals) is telling me that a) I'm an idiot for buying stuff from iTunes rather than Audible and b)... well, so far I haven't found a b.
Can ANYBODY help here? I'm desperate. This was supposed to be a christmas present. I'm to the point that I'm going to throw my computer across the room, I'm so angry.
Thanks in advance if you can give any assistance, kelmeister
Dell Dimension XPS Gen5   Windows XP  

Answer 1

Let me better explain what I have:
I bought "Mostly Harmless." It shows up in my Audiobooks folder as
Mostly Harmless Part 1 of 3 2:26:44
Mostly Harmless Part 2 of 3 2:35:47
Mostly Harmless Part 3 of 3 1:21:28
I create a new playlist, "Mostly Harmless," and try to burn it. I put in my CD and get the following error message:
"Playlists which include purchased music and tracks longer than an audio CD cannot be burned. To burn an audio CD of [Mostly Harmless Part * of 3] please make a playlist with just that track and choose Burn Disc."
So I make three new playlists, one for each part. I choose the playlist for part one. I get the message that I'm going to need multiple discs, which I okay. It starts preparing the disc (I have it running at 2x to try to fix the disc ejection problem), but it spits it out repeatedly with the 4280 error, which I fix by opening and closing the door. When it finally burns, here's the tack listing:
Track one 12:29
Track two 38:23
Track three 15:19
Track four 13:39 this track ends with the words "Okay, I'm going!"
The next disc has this track listing:
Track one 3:54 this track beings "--ocking gesture."
Track two 10:02
Track three 13:38
Track four 9:58
Track five 7:47
Track six 18:42
Track seven 15:20
The track info shown above doesn't reflect the chapter information shown in the play window. I've tried "getting CD track names" but I get the error message that these albums are not iTunes albums, even though I purchased them through iTunes.
I'm completely lost as to what I've burned and what's left. This is all just from part one. iTunes also died in the middle of burning the third disc, so although it shows info for Tracks one-four, only track one works.
I asked a friend about this and he seemed to think that I could burn these as data disks and he could use Audacity to break everything up into its correct parts and label everything with the correct tag names. I'm going to try this work-around.