John,
Thanks -- I think I can explain what I'm seeing a little bit better now. There seem to be 2 distinct manifestations of this problem.
1) About half the time when I rip a cd, the last track does not rip. In this case, I get a message in the secure rip log saying track did not complete. Hard Errors, unable to complete reading the track. In this case, a .ape file is created in my library, but it is not playable and very small. This case only happens for the last track on the cd.
2) On about 2 tracks per cd, the ripping status changes to "Failed" immediately, before it even starts ripping the track and just moves on to the next track. Interestingly, in this case, the secure log shows that the track completed ok 100% even though it did not. In this case, no .ape file is created in my library. This case happens for random tracks anywhere on the cd.
I do not have these problems if I rip through iTunes.
If you would like to use windows remote desktop to access my machine, I can arrange that for you. Please let me know.
Thanks!
Jared