man, dj is one bitchy program...here's my "new" error:

E-17781 11/18/00 4:36:18 PM - Creative CD-RW RW4224E (Bus 0,ID 1):

copied from DJ window
(CDB: 54010000000000000000, Status: 040002, Sense: 031502) Random or mechanical positioning error

btw:
i got rid of buffer underrun by unchecking "auto insertion" in settings of my cdrom in the system window (read papa's DJ post)