[iTunes] Cannot find Burner or software?????

[John Erdman]

Kirk - Thought you'd like to know.

Just got off the phone with Apple Care. All fixed. Woo-hoo, I did not  
have a hardware problem

They had me start up from the original install disk.  Then repair the  
HD and Repair Permissions.
Then restarted from the my system HD, and had me toss both the caches  
in my main Library as well as the caches in my Home Library.

  After restart: everything is hunky dory.  He said that I had a  
corrupted preference file.

The System profiler again senses the Pioneer drive both under ATA and  
Disc Burning.
And I can write an audio CD from iTunes and a data CD from Finder.

I'm a happy camper again.

John