ITunes 7.1 Burning Problem

When I create a new playlist and burn that playlist to a blank cd in iTunes 7.1 it'll burn the tracks but it never seems to finalize the disk and iTunes locks up. Is this a common problem? What can I do to fix it?

acck. sorry to be a pain, but could you let us know which particular family of ThinkCentre you've got?
the CD diagnostics tell me your Type and Model ... but i need to enter the family first in the downloads and drivers page in order to enter that info in order to have a look at the available downloads ... and Lenovo is telling me that there are a bunch of different ThinkCentre families. see:
Lenovo Downloads and drivers
... the following document may be of some assistance with tracking down your particular ThinkCentre's family:
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