Well, under Settings/Options/CD Writer Settings there is a line that says "Use Generic Driver", which has a black dot inside the square, but the text is dim, so I can't change that value. Below that line, it has an option "Use internal ASPI layer (req restart) and that line is also dimmed out, so I can't change it either. It is currently not selected. I am assuming (and I know thats not always a good thing to do..) that MJ is not using the driver that I thought it would (under the golden-hawk db), but rather is using a generic driver, and maybe that is why it won't write the text.. guess i'm not sure why it doesn't use the correct driver? The options it will let me chg are Test Mode, eject CD after burn, Normalize before encoding, and Decode mp3 directly to CD. I tried to select the "Detect" button, but it doesn't seem to do anything.. and i also selected the check for updates, and it says i have everything.. i wonder if you have to purchase the full blown product for it to work correctly??