Yeah thats what I go through everytime my cd roms slows down... I don't seem to be getting those problems anymore though, I'm not burning as much maybe that has something to do with it? Can't believe I've already gone through almost 40 gigs, I was burning album after album, one after another thats when I was having those issues. However now I'm running out of drive space on my pc and slowed the process down a bit. Went to pricewatch.com and looking at drives right now, gotta have a place ta back all this up ya know. I'll start using the accurate settings once I get it.