Weird CD Burning Issue

Here's one for the books - whenever I burn a music selection/song to a CD (regardless of whether I'm using iTunes or Toast) the burned CD appears on my Destop as "Purchased" and the file inside the CD is always listed as "1 Galaxy Quest" (a song I downloaded via iTunes long ago) regardless of what the actual song/music I've burned on the CD is.
I've checked all my settings and everything is inputted correctly, and the fact that it happen on both iTunes and Toast and for every single song/music makes me wonder if something is screwed-up with my CD burner setup (DVDs burn just fine through DVD Studio Pro).
Any ideas, suggestions, insights or inspirations are much needed!
Thanks!
Mark

Sorry, I was using the way back machine, I saw this problem & the cure a few years ago in the Tiger forums and thought I remembered that was the cure, guess not.
I'll try to find it, but searching Apple Discussions isn't easy!

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