ITunes won't burn a CD after 10.4.7/6.0.5

This is an echo of the post, "iTunes won't burn audio or data CDs"
The subject pretty much says it. My Dual 2.3MHz G5 is a little over a year old. I noticed this yesterday, the first time I've tried burning an audio CD from iTunes since both updates. Whether I select the built-in superdrive or my LaCie FW CDR/DVDR, after clicking "burn CD", iTunes reads the playlist, checks the media, and begins the "initializing disk" task; but right then the iTunes display changes to "canceling disk burn", and displays an error window. The disk seems completely untouched. I seem to be able to burn a CD OK in Finder. I haven't tried making a non-audio CD in iTunes. I have restarted a couple of times, including a shut-down-and-cold-start. I am now officially out of clues.
Can anyone help? I am Terminal-friendly. TIA...
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2.5GB RAM Radeon 9600 video

Another interesting idea. Didn't seem to do it for me. Went down to 2x, tried both my built-in and my external drives. One change is that I now see the "preparing disc" progress bar before getting the "canceling disc burn..."
Interesting, to compare with Kevin's, is that if I have a disc already inserted, it ejects and I need to re-insert.
I might try downgrading to 10.4.6 if I can figure out how to do it, and maybe to iTunes 6.0.4 (if I can find an installer). I'll report any results.
I sure hope this is some simple bug that gets fixed soon...
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