I still blame the media because Princo are crappy discs, and this is not my opinion, but a general agree: most of people here had very bad experiences (and many data losses) using these discs.

However, there are some alternative solutions. You can use a different live distro to burn the ISO, like for example Knoppix or Ubuntu. These should already have a burning software included, so this should enable you to burn the ISO under Linux. This is a rathe rcumbersome solution however.

Another alternative is to buy a pressed disc of PCLinuxOS Take a look here. The price is not excessive and will cover only shipping costs. This of course will be the definitive solution because you will have a pressed CD and no need to burn the disc by yourself.

Another alternative is to download the ISO image using the torrent. In fact, the torrent has a hash control done during the download, and this gives more warranty of the file integrity. The FTP is not accurate as the torrent.

At the moment I have no more ideas