Very, very slow disc duplication... Help

[pberkholz]

Hello to all you MTU alumni. This is my first time using this forum, so please bear with me.
I am having trouble duplicating CD+G's with Microstudio 2.4, it takes over 90-120 minutes or more to duplicate a CDR. Can anyone help?
Spec's: New Sony Laptop (PCG-FXA48), 1.2GhZ AMD, 512 SDRAM, 30GIG HD, XP Home OS, New Plextor CDRW drive (PX-W4824TU), Buslink USB 2.0 Cardbus, Imation 700MB 1x-48x multispeed CDR recording media. Recording from a wide array of CD+G's.
All settings appear to be correct; tried unchecking and setting different read & write speeds. All drivers appear to be current. No error messages. Display shows that recording time is 3 minutes at 48x speed, but not reality.
Note; before buying MicroStudio, I ripped CDR's & CDRW's with Alchohol 120% with no quality problems in only 5 minutes with the same system devices. I like MicroStudio better though. Can we get this to speed up? Should be something simple that I don't see. That's why I'm asking the pro's.
Please respond...