***warning - as many of you may know, I have a tendency to ramble***

What's up AO... long time since I've been here... wtf happened? Kinda fugly around here, no? :P

Anyway, a while back I built a "jukebox" for my dad out of an old 300MHz box... I slapped Win2K on it w/ Winamp, and got all of the updates, etc etc...

Anyway, from time to time he'll give me a list of rare songs and I do what I can to find them as mp3s, burn them to CD and bring them by to put on his computer...

But the damn box won't read them. Usually I'll either get an incorrect function error, or it will simply ask me to insert a disc into the drive...

I've tried several different ways of burning these songs to disc - I've used the built in XP software (Roxio, right?), Windows Media Player and CDBurnerXP Pro - I've burnt the tracks both "as data" and I've tried "creating an audio CD..." I finally got so frustrated, I went down to the local computer shop and bought two more old CD drives - same result every time...

Now, get this - the only one my 2000 Box recognized was the WMP burn - which converts all of the tracks to cda format... which means they take up more space, and it renames my files to Track 1, Track 2, etc. And another strange thing - all of the drives recognize CD-Rs just fine (note that I haven't burned any CD-Rs w/ this box)...

So what's the deal? I've been researching for 2 days... I've looked up all of the error messages (i.e. D:\ not accessible - Incorrect Function)... I can't find anything anywhere...

This should be a simple operation... I hate headache problems like these, as I'm sure many of you hate when people post headache problems like these (especially on a security site)... but I'm at my wits end on this one...

any ideas? questions, comments, things you'd like to think about?

thanks...
-wiskic10_4