Oh boy! I'll come back tomorrow to try to give you some useful (I hope.)
information. I'm "relaxing" following a heck of a day during which I drove
our beloved cat a couple of hundred miles for a surgical procedure, then
waited for his return to the land of the living and the long drive home.

Now that you know that I love cats (and anything else that moves) you may
wish to reconsider requesting information of any kind from me. But I'll try
to remember to return to tell you just what I did. Right now -- well, I
wouldn't trust anything I had to say.

I do know that it involves invoking the Organize button in Windows Explorer
so that you can see the location of the cache. After that, obviously, it's
just a matter of finding it, and examining (and possibly deleting) the
contents if they don't look "right". In this case, it was pretty obvious to
me that the cache contained partial contents of a previous burn. It was just
as obvious, I think, that those contents should have been deleted following
the successful burn. For some reason the presence of part of the preivous
burn's contents seemed to prevent Vista from realizing that there was more to
be added. Bizarre. Without serious study I would not know whether the failure
belonged to me or to the OS. But I do think it odd that Windows seems to
allow so many avenues to failure when, if it's really needed, the designers
of the UI should just lead the user down the old garden path to success --
instead of letting him wallow about amongst multiple pathways to failure.
It's cool to have a logical system that just works in a myriad of ways. It's
not cool to have a system that LOOKS logical enough to allow multiple
approaches, but which fails to produce a desired result unless you toe the
line and follow a specific recipe for success. If a specific recipe is
required, then, for pity's sake, tell us what it is!

"RJ" wrote:

> I believe I am having a similar problem. How did you clear the cache? Thanks
>
> "jimmuh" wrote:
>
> > And the answer is (apparently / possibly) a corrupted cache. I looked into
> > the burning cache location and found only a partial listing of the files I
> > had designated for the burn. I deleted them manually, rebooted the system,
> > and burning returned to normal behavior. I'm not sure, but it appears that
> > the cache was not cleared after a previous burn was performed. I think I'll
> > just set the wizard to stay up so that I can manually click on the Finish
> > button after finishing a burn to see if that will keep this from happening
> > again.
> >
> > "jimmuh" wrote:
> >
> > > Frankly, I've thought the inbuilt DVD/CD burning features of Windows XP and
> > > Vista have always been pretty flaky. The whole thing just doesn't look to me
> > > as though it was designed by someone who actually wanted it to work, what
> > > with the various balloon messages about seeing files that are ready to be
> > > burned and the series of little dialog boxes. But the past couple of days the
> > > feature doesn't even work badly any more. I stick a blank DVD-R disc in the
> > > drive, the dialog pops up to ask me whether I want to use WMP or Windows to
> > > burn files to the disc. I choose to use Windows, I get to designate the files
> > > I want burned, and the disc image creation progress bar comes up. But that
> > > process, after going on for several minutes, just wanders off into la-la land
> > > and quits. The Explorer Window and the dialog box just go away. No error
> > > messages, no nothing.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else seen this on Vista Business RTM?
> > >
> > > The only disc burning related installation I have done on this computer is
> > > to install IsoRecorder, which works just fine, BTW.