Medium write error when i try to burn an audio cd with itunes

I have been surfing through a lot of forums and some people found it useful to choose a slower burn speed, some cleaned their disc drives and were helped for a few days but this problem keeps recurring. I have tried the opensource software "BURN" with no problems. I think the main problem is itunes and their low level software that communicates with the hardware. This is really an inconvenience. safari has major problems loading webpage unless opendns is used. I dont know what going on. I agree that apple probably makes the best softwares compared to microsoft in terms of speed and performance but they often get the basics wrong. Im switching back to a slower pc, atleast it will browse the net, play flv's properly and burn my f###ng discs. Ohh another greatest achievement by apple: The iphone 4.
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What type of disk and manufadturer is it? What speed are you writing at?
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