Trav, you and I and cd burners... My second one crapped out on me in under three months. The people at Sony customer support really got an ear ful. I work in the industry and when they found out that I conrotl one of the distibution e-commerce servers for their major US distributors they went nuts to get me a new one. I hate having to use leverage, but DAMN IT I have too much stuff not to have a burner!