The attempt to burn a disc failed.  Not good.

Well, I feel like I have exhausted all means to fix my problem. Can't seem to burn a CD. Tried using the Utility functions in resetting my permissions and nothing seemed to work. I open itunes and select a playlist to burn, insert a blank disc, click the burn disc icon and I hear the attempt to burn. But after 30 seconds, the time in the message box starts to increase rather than decrease as the writing of the playlist stops completely. The message I get reads "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry." In my console disc recording log the following appears:
iTunes: Burn started, Sat Aug 18 22:17:31 2007
iTunes: Burning to CD-R media with SAO strategy in MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J FAV1 via ATAPI.
iTunes: Requested burn speed was 77x, actual burn speed is 24x.
iTunes: Burn underrun protection is supported, and enabled.
iTunes: DVD-R UJ-85J: SCSITask 6588.640137 CDB: Write (10), block: 16914, count: 27 failed with service response = 1 (SERVICEDELIVERY_OR_TARGETFAILURE), status = 1 (TaskTimeoutOccurred)
iTunes: Retry #1
iTunes: Burn failed, Sat Aug 18 22:20:52 2007
iTunes: Burn sense: 6/29/00 Unit Attention, Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred
iTunes: Burn error: 0x80020022 The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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4. Uninstall iTunes 11.4
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