Well, so much for our collective genius.

I moved all the mp3 files to my hard drive and burned another CD. Same problem. Certain tracks "skip", no matter what order I burn them in. I even tried burning at the lowest transfer rate (20X as opposed to 40X) with buffer underrun protection and using the "TEst and Record CD" setting. The same tracks still skip.

SO, I'm off to do more research on whether this can be fixed. ANy more ideas?