That actually occurred to me too, the running of more than one thing while burning. Usually though, before I start burning I close everything out. Today all I had up was Winamp (but not playing), AIM (but not chatting), and uTorrent (3 torrents running). My plan was not to try anything again until uTorrent was finished. Even if I do try the lower speed idea, I'm still going to wait until all the torrents are done - I don't trust anything these days when it comes to burning stuff. I'm tired of throwing away half-burned DVDs.

About 5 minutes ago a friend IMed me and said the same thing, "Try burning at 4x - for whatever reason it doesn't like it when you burn at 8x."

Guess I'll find out just what it likes when uTorrent is done...

NT