I have had great success with Nero since day one. I have found tremendously variable reflectivity issues with some very inexpensive cd-rs. I have one CD player that is very tempermental about poor reflectivity discs and I use it as my benchmark for buy cd-r's. Right now my fav is Sony at $20 for 50 at Best Buy. I have never had a problem with them. I also had good luck with Maxell's but have not used them in a while. Ocasional problems with reading Memorex on my "test" player. My Yamaha 24x10x40 burner was a big upgrade over my Ricoh, but burning speed is more like 6-8 times total start to finish when doing 8-10 wav songs. Fast enough.
Jim Tavegia
Jim Tavegia