Satellite A200-244 - DVD/CD burning issues

Hi all
I've had my Satellite A200-244 since February 2008 and I'm very happy with it apart from the cd/dvd writer which is completely useless.
I've yet to manage to burn a cd (audio or data) without errors occuring.
In fact these days I can't burn a cd at all - iTunes doesn't like it, Winamp doesn't like it, even Windows Media Player hates it now (it used to be OK with it).
Is this an issue others had as well?
I don't know what to do and I really need to be able to burn cds!
I'd be grateful for any help/pointers.
Many thanks.

I still dont know the details
What error do you get?
What burning application do you use?
And yes if you are using wrong or not compatible CDs you will be not able to burn the medium or it will burn but not properly.
Furthermore some installed 3rd party applications like for example iTunes could affect the data burning.
By the way;
Remove the driver from device manager. Then access the registry and remove the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters values completely from the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Then restart the notebook.

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