I gave up on Nero, I now use easy CD creator. Works great! :)
I have always used Easy CD Creator and Direct CD with minimal fuss (there was a minor issue with Win2K that was patched). It's just that some of the pinheads in the cdrom usenet groups are always raving about Nero.
The only problem with my older version of ECDC is it probably won't support 24 x write. The new version has some major issues in Win2K.