Thanks, John. No, it's not a USB problem. My machine does have USB-2, which surprised me, since I got it about 2 1/2 or 3 years ago. The thing is, everything was working perfectly: I could burn CDs at 52x, no problem. Then I did SOMETHING, I suspect it was running Norton Win Doctor, and that must have reset the flags on CDPlayer to autoplay, and that's what seems to have caused the problem: CDPlayer would apparently not relinquish the CD to Nero. I thought I had fixed it by resetting the Audio CD and Audio CD Playback file preferences to disable autoplay. But I think something else must have happened, with CDPlayer or something else, so there's still something (scuzzy) interfering with the burner's SCSI connection, because the logs keep saying SCSI_ERR. Based on the cryptic information in Nero's FAQ's, it might be one of the .vxd drivers...but I'll be damned if I can figure out which one of the dozens of those is causing the problem. Any other thoughts? Unfortunately, Norton's repair history doesn't seem to go back more than 24 hours, so I can't figure out what it was that I might have done.

Aloha,
Mark

No, I'm not a dentist, GUEST--did you say that because this is like pulling teeth?? I'm a pediatrician.