Hey, me again...thought I'd chime in here...
One of the biggest factors in the burnspeed issue is what speed the media is designed for. I got a chance to tour a CD-Mastering facility, and they have this kickass machine that can actually count burn errors, etc. They told me that they found that Taiyo-Yuden 1x media burned at 1x yeilded the lowest error rate they had ever tested, but that #2 on the list was somethign not quite expected...I believe it was some random generic brand burned at 32x.
I avoid Maxell when at all possible...it's more of a personal grudge than anything really concrete in my reasoning. My old discman wouldn't play Maxells, but it had no trouble with pretty much anything else I threw at it...now I have a grudge against Maxell
MPEDrummer