ITunes 8 won't burn audio cd's

iTunes will now only burn MP3 cd's. If I set it to burn audio cd's, it goes through the initial process (ie you can hear the drive working & iTunes displays message in top window that it's writing each song as it comes to it) but once it goes thru the writing process, a new window pops up (just like Windows XP launches when you put a new blank CD in the drive) indicating a new blank cd is in the drive -- and then nothing happens. It doesn't burn. Nor is there anything burned on the cd in the drive, that just got "written" to. The cd drive is fine. It burns cd's under windows and using other programs such as Roxio. In fact, I uninstalled Roxio thinking it might be causing a conflict w/ iTunes. No difference.
Any ideas, anyone???

This seems to be a common and, as of yet, unresolved issue. Check out: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1742251&tstart=0

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Track 6, start time 12:59:48
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