Regarding "right running systems"==I used to get coasters burning mp3's then on the same system but with a new burner that had burn safe on it, I never got another coaster even when I tried to overload the system.

I notice while transcoding wave to mp3 or whatever that certain programs on startup will cause small glitches in the resulting music which makes me think these encoding/transcoding programs suffer from lack of buffer--or other alliterative failure amounting to not being "burn safe." Meaning again, that "system" is a bit grandiose when it comes down to the component of interest (a burnner or a piece of software) being designed for a real time environment.===although maybe adjusting every running program to take fewer resources may be a sloggish fix.

I wish there was some more effective way the market place could bring bad software to task. We take too much pride in figuring out how to make it work or to live with it rather than reject it.

Thanks--I feel better now. ///// bobbo.