Yeah, I've tried all those options you've posted: using my burner drive, and using the default plugins, nothing seems to work for me. I tired making an iso of it, but I got a load of "bad sector" errors...so I guess it's a bad cd copy - which is real weird since at one point it worked fine for me, until one day I got to a fmv clip and it just blacked out and hasn't worked since.
Ben