Dr Trevor J. Hutley said: >I have burnt another 10 DVD (archives) since then, and each time >carefully kept the content at 4.2Gb or less, and have had no more >problems. >I agree with all of your analysis and conclusions, based on my total >experience these last few days, that it is a (small) issue with >Toast, with the resulting ungraceful handling and stack of errors. Only if another burn application doesn't have a problem with the same media. Have you tried Disk Utility for example? Just make a big disk image and fill it up to 4450MB (practical max for many drives) or try more. Until you have tried another app it's just a theory.