Purchased, Protected AAC music won't create Audio CD

This is a newly manifested problem. I used to be able to do this. ANY playlist containing ANY purchased and protected AAC format music won't burn an audio CD on my onboard superdrive. The drive initializes the disk and iTunes reads "Writing...(first song)". However, nothing further happens.
I have left the system alone for up to 30 minutes with no progress indicated on the burning status window. I have tried a variety of playlists with different combinations of protected and unprotected formats. (These playlists WILL create a data disk.) All protected songs will play on the computer. Ejecting the disk ruins the burn of course and I have wasted 12 CDs trying different configurations.
ANY playlist with NO purchased songs burns properly and quickly as an audio CD or data disk. I have reauthorized the computer on iTunes. I have reinstalled iTunes7.0.2.
G4, Quicksilver   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   Superdrive

iTunes will only let you burn protected AAC audio 10 times.
This is incorrect.
You can burn purchased music in a specific playlist only 7 times.
If you want to burn more, you need to change the playlist.

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