I had a problem with some CDs I made with MP3s on them. I was using Windows Explorer's built-in CD burning software. But when I tried burning the CD with Roxio or Sonic, the CDs worked fine.
I was very mad at that CD player until I started recording CD's at a "slow" speed.
I'm talking 4x 8x when I started doing that over a year ago there was no more problem. Had trouble finding CDs that would record that slow Sony or Verbatim worked. Also switched all music over to MP3. Have had no skippers or Bad Disks for almost 2 years. Put 6 disks in and drove 3000 miles across western Canada and back through northern states about 50 hrs on road and never a skip or bad disk.
Before that 4 would spit out, one played fine, and one would skip every other word. Try a few slow speed recordings and see if it works for you.
Happens with ALL CD's for me, not just burned. I wonder if I go in and get it changed, will I get the new 07 head, with the aux input for MP3 players? Would put the Skipper 500 issues to bed, for me.
Two years almost on my original equipment Shaker "A". Had a couple disks show up as bad disks, reburned them and they were fine. I use Verbatim Lightscribe CD's so I can burn a nifty label on them, and they do just great. Not once thrown a bad disc on me since I switched to using those.