Anyone with a laptop burner - Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K12D?

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Does anyone here have a laptop with a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K12D DVD+/-R/RW
CD-R drive? If so, are you using Nero 6 and having any problems with it?

I have a Toshiba SP25-S520 with the above DVD/CD burner, Win XP Home SP-2, 1
GB RAM, etc. When I use Nero 6 to burn a CD, it will NEVER burn above 4x.
However, Nero Cd-DVD speed WILL burn a test data disc at the full 16x speed.
I also tried NTI CD-DVD Maker and this will also allow me to burn at 16X.

I have tried 6 different kinds of media, and Nero will allow me to choose
the 16x speed (or 12x or 8x), but once the burn starts, it will give me an
error that it can't burn at 16x (or 12x or even 8x) and drop down to 4x.

I even tried the reg patch that tells Nero to ignore the media rating and go
by the drive's firmware, but that doesn't help. I know it's not the drive
or the media because NTI works at full speed, as does Nero's own CD-DVD
speed program.

Is anyone else having this problem? Nero's web site lists this drive as
supported. I wrote to support and they responded back with a less than
useful answer. I would rather use Nero on the laptop because it's audio
features, while not stellar, are perfect for use on my laptop.

Any help would be appreciated - so I have more ammunition to go back to
Ahead with. Thanks.