Well, after a couple of failed attempts to burn CDs recently, I ordered a Samsung Internal SuperDrive from OWC. Of course, now that I am waiting for the drive to arrive, I tried again and was able to burn two CD-Rs this evening, followed by a failure on the third attempt. I'm not sure what this ...

Is that a doable replacement for someone like myself? The most complicated computer work that I've ever done is to install some additional memory.

Considering the possibility/probability that it is a failing optical drive, do you have any advice for me? Should I simply use the computer until it goes kaput? Is there anything I can do to prolong its life? If it goes kaput, is it worth replacing? I am not a tech wizard and have never done ...

Sorry, I've been away and just recently checked in again. I've tried 6 or 7 different combinations of settings and the one that seems to determine success or failure is the total time of the play list. I can burn at maximum speed and slower speeds, I can burn with the CD text included or not - as ...

After reading a few posts on a different forum, I decided to try again - with a couple of changes. I had experienced 4 consecutive failed attempts - 4 ruined CD-Rs. Anyway, I removed a couple of songs from my play list so that I was not pushing the time limit - instead of burning 1.2 hours, I tried ...

Well, I was able to burn 2 CDs until the same problem returned. I ran Repair Permissions again and restarted, but this time it made no difference - the next attempt failed also. BTW, when I repaired permissions the previous time, the report indicated some corrected permissions in iTunes, but that ...

Fantastic! Many, many thanks, kriegvision!!! That did the trick. I just burned a CD and it worked fine. The report that was displayed in Disk Utility after I had run Repair Permissions indicated some corrected permissions in iTunes, so that raised my hopes. Then when I tried to burn a disc and the ...

More info that I failed to include with my initial message:

When iTunes reads the CDs that I've tried to burn, the iTunes display shows the track numbers for all of the songs, but does not show the titles or any other information. For example, if I've tried to burn a 14-track CD, it shows 14 tracks ...

My eMac, purchased refurbished a couple of months ago, has just developed a problem with burning CDs. I have already burned several (8 - 10) with it, but when I tried to burn one yesterday, it failed to do so. I've tried to do a couple minor things (restart, etc.), then tried to burn a CD, and so ...

Thanks for your help, SAAB. It is very much appreciated. Those images looked pretty good. Some of the expressions are a little "raised", but all are readable and the documents are usable, even if they don't look perfect.

Instead of making a couple of blind decisions and hoping for the best, I now ...

Thanks for the offer. I've attached two zipped documents - both were originally AppleWorks 6 documents that contain algebraic expressions imported from MathType, the father program of Equation Editor. One contains mostly basic algebraic expressions while the other contains more complicated ...

Thanks for the reply - it certainly helps me to ask more focused questions. For example, does anyone know if iWork will be able to open (and save) my old documents that were created in AppleWorks? (A couple of years ago, I was told by a source whom I no longer remember that my old documents would ...

I'm looking for some advice on what I should purchase. I have two eMacs: the newer one runs OS X 10.4.11, has 1GB memory and a 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 processor, the older one runs OS X 10.2.8, has 256 mB memory and a 700 MHz Power PC G4 processor. I've been using AppleWorks 6.2.4 on the older eMac ...