i apologize. I should have mentioned the hardware I have, as well as more details. i was in a hurry. I have a G4 533DP with 384MB RAM. The burner is the Apple installed one within the computer. itunes recognizes the drive under the advanced tab in preferences as Matshita CD-RW CW-7586. Toast Ti. Beta actually works just fine. It works great as a matter of fact, but I want to be able to use itunes burning as well. itunes can be easier if i am in itunes with a playlist made for a friend. The most annoying thing is the inability for it to even rocognize audio CD's. The audio CD's don't even show up in OS X's finder as a CD. Other program CD's do, however, show up. I don't have any other devices connected to the computer other than the basics, Monitor, speakers, keyboard, etc.
Update - just tried itunes again...it is recognizng the audio CD's now(go figure...who knows!!), but I just tried to burn a CD and it produced this error
"CD burning failed because an unknown error occurred (-36)"
Toast burns without a problem...but this error occurred after I had already deleted Toast. Help!!