Itunes not burning a CD

Ok My Itunes will no longer burn a CD. I put a blank CD in...it checks the playlist, starts to intialize...says the title of the first song, like its getting ready to start burning. Then it says "The attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occurred(4280).
I have searched the web and this site looking for the answers. But none of them seem to be working. I have an HP pavillon laptop with vista. Recently I upgraded my Itunes to 7.5.0.20....i think thats the version at least. All the drive problems I see are about a sony drive...but I did that diagnostics testing and this is what came up...
Optical Drive Detected
H:Slimtype DVD A DS8AZH ATA Device
Optical Drive:
Yellow Dot-Date or MP3 CD Found.
Green Dot- Driver correctly Installed
Yellow Dot-Unable to access audio CD.
Yellow Dot-Unable to read audio CD.
If anyone knows how to fix this it'd be great.

Hi highpeakshiker,
From your post I see that you're running into playback issues with CD's that you burn from iTunes. To troubleshoot these burned CD issues, please follow the directions in the article below.
iTunes for Windows: Additional troubleshooting tips for burning issues - Apple Support
Take care,
Alex H.

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Track 6, start time 18:07:38
Track 7, start time 21:10:55
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Track 12, start time 38:26:67
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Track 17, start time 57:44:50
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