Just in case it helps in the interim, I thought I should add one other note.
It seems that it's best to be PATIENT with Vista when it's preparing a large
assemblage of files for a burn. I have a reasonably fast system -- a Dell
Precision M70 workstation. It's a notebook. Fast for a notebook. But still a
notebook. And a 2 gig burn to DVD takes it some time, under Vista, to
organize.

I have deliberately avoided all third party burning solutions at this early
stage of evaluation to see how the native elements of the OS perform at this
task. I say that, but I did install Alan Feinman's IsoRecorder so that I
could (duh) burn ISOs. (I hope I got his name right. The dude has made some
serious contributions to the community.)

When I'm sober I hope I'll remember to return to try to provide whatever
solid information I can manage.

Today has been tough. Wifey is really attached to this cat. And, to tell you
the truth, so am I.

"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.