Need help with problem burning cd's with Mac G4


Ok, I'm new to burning cd's and I'm having problems with audible dropouts in cd's I'm burning. There are numerous short audible dropouts at random intervals in cd's assembled from a playlist. I have a new 12" G4 Mac Powerbook, stock 256 ram, with Superdrive. I'm importing the cd tracks to Itunes, then ripping with the internal drive onto Memorex cd-r media. This is a really new computer and it isn't loaded with data intensive files. Do I need more memory, configuration changes, external hard drive, external burner or what? Thanks, Will.
photon46

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Thanks for the suggestions. I have been using Memorex cd-r's to record music on a different G4 Os9.2 system with Toast flawlessly, so I was surprised to discover such error ridden burns with Itunes. I find Toast faster & easier to work with anyway, so that sounds like a good first step. Thanks, Will.
Again, thanks to all. Yes I'm running Panther 10.3.3. This morning, I tried burning a cd at 2x speed, rather than the preset default which is several times faster. The same playlist which had numerous audible dropouts now sounds error free. While looking around controls/settings in Itunes, I noticed that the factory default turns error correction during import off in order to speed this process up. I turned error correction on and will burn some tests to see how this affects things.