My final cry for help (please read/help)

[mushu]

I have the same model of CD burner. I usually use CDR-win or Nero to burn back ups. I would suggest though that you use silver blue disks or gold disks to burn back-ups. Never use silver back disks. I dont really have any problems with my burner.
You would also need patches sometimes. I made a back up copy of toca world touring cars and had exactly the same files as the original when checked in explorer but i still needed the patch so it will work.