I had the same problem earlier this year. A guy that works near my part time job knows I like music (he works at a record shop) and brings me all sorts of live CDR's. I generally don't listen to them (mainly because the only CD player I own is in my car), but I figured I'd try to return the favor. I couldn't get my Windows 7 machine to burn a CDR to save my life. I ended up putting a bunch of MP3's of my recordings on a USB drive. Luckily he is more computer literate so he was happy.