[Echo Talon]

while Cd's may appear to play fine while scratched for audio and such thats isn't necessialry the case for data, like if you are installing Linux with a scratched CD, i know this from experience(2 days ago) and the CD was only 1 week old, I went from 1 version of Linux back to the other and in that amount of time it had a little scratch on it that would NOT allow the "live CD" to boot. I had to burn a new copy.

[Spktyr]

Get a DiskDoctor, and watch it polish the scratches right out. Problem solved.