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i dont know how is that users fault.
im trying to recreate the problem you are having but ive already wasted 5 CD's. :D

i guess i am extremly lucky to have a magic mac that is able to burn a CD.
oh. and that can empty trash!
or maybe 99,99~9% of mac users are magicians that write CD with their laser eyes because OS X is unable to burn a CD without a crash.

its funny. you had 2 faulty, i had 3 nonfaulty.

i had vista installed on my MP, the system rating was completely maxed out!

but i went with Xp 64 instead becaue the boot time was ridiculously faster and system held up much better.
i actually like XP x86 / x64, its imo the best windows system ever... i was always angry with preXP versions not having NTFS FileSystem which i personally think is great! FAT32 allocation table got wiped so easily if electricty went kaboom while booting...
but anyway,
your personal experience with Mac OS X does not render the system faulty and unstable
as i said a hundred times, 10.5.0 - 10.5.2 worked for me that bad i wished i hadnt bought the damn thing, because of, ironically, FIREWIRE AUDIO... with 10.5.3 out everything works flawless, and yes, i can even burn cds.
 
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