Superdrive does not burn Cd-"checking media"

Question

In the past couple of weeks, I would burn a CD with iTunes 7.0.1 and then any other blank CD I insert would just keep spinning and iTunes would report "checking media". Sometimes the blank CD would be rejected. Each day I can burn a CD and then after that I can't burn a CD until I restart.
I have been able to burn DVD's without any problems.
PowerMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Answer 1

This is what I have so far. When I am able to burn
an audio CD with iTunes, the CD text does not show
up, just Track #s.
That is normal. iTunes does not handle CD Text.
Otherwise, I get the message of
"Checking media" and the drive keeps spinning.
Have you tried different media, such as Verbatim.
I quit iTunes and used Toast to burn a data file. That
was okay. But when I tried to burn 2 songs from the
iTunes library with Toast, the burn went okay, but
the song titles were incorrect.
Also normal. Song titles are not stored on audio CDs. iTunes get the song titles from an online database of CDs. The CD is identified by the lengths of all the songs on the disc. If you burn only part of a CD, it will not find the correct song titles.
I also used Disk
Utilities to burn a data file and that went okay.
Data disk are burned with a directory of file names, so do not have the song name problems of audio CDs.
Should iTunes be re-loaded?
No. I think your only problem is bad media.