Really slow cd burning/can't repair permissions

It used to take a few minutes to burn a cd from iTunes, but now it takes about 15 minutes. I think this happened when I went to iTunes 6. The burning speed is set at Max Possible. I have an external burner. I've seen a few discussions on this, but they have too much jargon so I can't follow them.
Also, when trying to repair permissions to see if that would help, I get a Disk Utility Internal Error message, stating that Disk Utility has lost its connection with the Disk Management Tool and can't continue. I even booted from the installer disk and tried that, but I get the same message.
Can anyone help?

i've been having slow burn issues lately.....itunes 6.x.....found out it was a problem in OSS3D ( a audio enhancement plug-in ) even though i had it turned it off i had not unchecked the box that read " apply to burns" after doing so burn of a 16 song playlist went from 21 mins. to 8 mins.....also i noticed that when i upgraded to itunes 6 that my folder in itunes had been reset..i put it back to where it was ( a folder titled "Music" on another hard drive ) and used BatChmod http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12057 to set permissions..( i dragged iTunes to it first to see what it's permissions where, wrote them down ; deleted that entry ; then dragged my "Music" folder to it and entered the iTunes permissions...clicked "apply to enclosed folders", clicked "unlock" then hit apply....also i had to set up a pc at work and "donated" a 256mb ram card to it,,dropping me from 1Gb of ram to 768...it HAS made a difference and not for the better

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