I have an HP Pavillion w/ Windows XP that came w/ WMP 9 that automatically
updated to WMP 10 recently.  Since then, whenever I burn (~3M to 10M) WMA or
MP3 music files they automatically convert to CDA files with a 1KB size
associated with them.  Oddly, the CD WILL play in WMP & my truck's CD player,
but the load time (especially in the truck) is looong, but eventually the CD
plays just fine.

I've seen other posts regarding changing the properties of the output CD.  
Looking at the WMP help file, it says to ..."click the Display properties and
settings button (that little checkmark) on the Burn tab of WMP.  Then , In
the Items on Device pane (the right side of Burn), click one of the
following:   *Audio CD, *Data CD, *HighMAT Audio".

However, when I click the property & settings button, there is no 'Items on
Device' pane, and these 3 options above are not there.   The box that does
come up has  two tabs: one marked Recording, the other Quality.  There is a
checkbox to enable CD recording (which is checked), a pull-down menu to
choose the drive for Windows  to store an “image” of the CD to be written (C:
is chosen), a write-speed pull-down menu (set to Fastest), and a checked box
to automatically eject the CD after writing.

The Quality tab has a large box labeled ‘Data CDs’ (which I'm not sure is my
problem or not).  Below it are 2 options on file quality level, and below
those a check-box ‘Burn Playlists as M3U (audio only)'.  A final check-box at
the bottom is for volume application to music when the CD is burned.  

I’ve burned CD’s using WMP10, RecordNow!, and a few random CD burn programs
from Tucows, yet they all output CDA files.

Am I blind & simply missing something obvious, or just plain stupid (I'm
voting for the latter!)?  Sorry for the long post but any help would be
GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks,
Greg Carriveau
michcub@comcast.net