Volume levels burning to CD

I know this problem has been raised before but I wondered what were the latest thoughts on getting consistent volume levels when burning a mixed source playlist to a CD. Some songs on the CD are a lot quieter than others.
In the info box on the individual songs I noticed I have a range of volumes from 2.3db to 12 db.
I have iTunes 6.0.5 and wondered if this is the version 2 that people say has improved on the previous one when it comes to this problem?
Macbook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Thanks for the feedback---I was sure i wasn't the only one this happened to. That is an idea about the iTunes version---i need to redo some of my old playlists and see if they turn out better. I did a few playlist that were better---but it's hard to know if the source music is better or the new iTunes.
eMac   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   iTunes 6.0.5, only a user for 3 years

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