"Hi" to all from new (48hr sleepless burning/copy protection crash course ) A120% user.

While burning WCraft III (securom *new) I noticed that A120% wont let me burn slower than 8x (offers 8x, 12x, 16x or maximim).
Tried changing options (data type settings/recording options) to no effect.
Also noticed that if I burn at "maximum" speed, the status window tells me i'm burning at 16x when my Lite-On is capable of 24x. The write speed information tab also puts the maximum of this device at only 16x.

The questions are:
1) how can i get A120% to allow me to burn slow (say 4x or 2x)?

2) why doesn't A120% allow me to write at 24x? (it recognises my Lite-On model perfectly).

3) A large number of posts recommend reading/writing as slowly as possible. Why? (having the capability of burning in 4 minutes and not using it seems a pity).
And more importantly: When should you read slowly? & when should you write slowly? Does it depend on the copy protection in question? the burner? the cd-r quality?

Thanks in advance, FE

PS WCraft III burnt at 16x w securom*new profile plays perfectly...