Here's a page I wrote for my own purposes on making a CD using Goldwave How to put music from a tape onto a CD

I don't recognise the problem you've come across. It sounbds as if it's the CD burner rather than Goldwave.

I use Adaptec Easy CD Creator for actually making the CD - it came with the CD recorder when it was installed.

One thing - are you sure you've allowed the CD burner to do all its tricks? I mean, with CD Creator, after it's finished recording the tracks it tales a couple of minutes doing other stuff before saying it has finished.

The other thing where I have had problems has been where I hadn't closed down pretty well everything else on my PC before burning the CD. The program didn't seem to like competing with other stuff.