"cd burning seems to be as much art as science anyway. some cd discs work well with some drives but not with others, and sometimes a higher speed burns better than a lower speed."

"I use the free magiciso at 2x, runs ok."

"There is a How-To Burn an Iso using Nero (with pictures) at
http://whoppix.info/∞"

"The main trick is to click File, Burn Image"

"I have used various programs, finally settled on BashBurn in Linux and Nero in Windows."

"I believe the majority of coasters are caused by too high a burning speed, I burn at no higher then 4x.
Also corrupted downloads caused by poor browsers, I've had good results with Firefox."

"Burncdcc seems to use 2 megs of ram and about 1% of the cpu time on my machine (WinXP) ... see the attached picture"

"Thanks for the info about Burncdcc - I have it set to max (I think my max is x2) and it has worked every time. Great program"