A similar (sort of) thing happened to me. Only i hadn't ever been able to get my burner to work. A friend of mine who worked on XP even came in and looked at it, and decided there was absolutely nothing wrong. (BTW, this was a brand new computer). Finally i figured out that i (oops!) had been using the wrong kind of CD-RW. I wanted CD-R's, not CD-RW's. That probably isn't your problem, but sometimes the simplest things are the issue at hand :-)

spitfire