plextor px716a writing trouble

[carljohn]

i just purchased the px716a internal drive with the 2.610 software for microstudio. at first the reading and writing to mtu disc went smooth but on playback i encountered the graphics would not move from the opening songtitle page. i posted on the microstudio section with no responses and to be honest this is driving me nuts so now i'm here. after reading the forum i went to the plexor site and downloaded the latest firmware for the 716a and now it reads ok but when i go to transfer to a blank mtu disc it just sits at the "recording pregap" part of the transfer. even when i try to play the original disc from the play portion of microstudio i get the freeze on the title screen. i have an 80m gig internal hd and plenty of memory (1gig). any help would be appreciated because being not to familliar with this stuff is really getting me frustrated .