yeah, the firmware has been updated - that was supposed to be for an issue regarding burning high-speed media.
i think i am going to have to downgrade, when i get a few spare hours to sit down and focus on it. bummer. at least i can still burn discs...
i have a 15" 800 mhz flat panel imac with a superdrive, and ever since i upgraded to 10.2.4 i can only burn dvd-r media at 1x and cd-r media at 4x - before the upgrade i was burning at 2x and 8x, respectively. i haven't made a media switch, either - i'm using media off of the same exact...
i had the same problem. i was booting off of a ufs partition, and couldn't install wmp either - i got the same error. for unrelated reasons, i reformatted to hfs+ and reinstalled osx, and wmp installed without complaint.
it's not just a microsoft thing; mozilla won't run off of a ufs...