Suddenly can't burn - Error 4880.

Greetings all.
I've recently started using iTunes and have bought songs in three rounds so far. The first two times I was able to burn down my songs to CD so I could listen to them on a CD-player.... but not so any more. Each time I try I now get an "unknown error - 4880".
From what I can see here it seems to be an error covering many errors, but do anybody have some advice.
I've not changed anything regarding my CD-burner since I was able to burn and to now where I'm not.
This is really annoying.

Wierd.
I tried to remove authorisation for my computer to play, and then re-authorize and then I was allowed to burn 1 of my playlists but not the other... strange.
So I added the files I wanted to burn to the playlist I could burn from and it succeeeded.....
Sorry to say - but this burning functionality seems very buggy and quite sporadic.

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