
If you want a good CD-RW...
...go Plextor.
They'll burn on just about any cheap-ass Costco special CD that you pick up, and will read damn near anything, regardless of the scratches on the surface.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche