Wierd one here.
I tried using nero to burn a cd at 8x, running 98se.... no joy. Burns at 6x ok though. Installed ME, installed Nero, and all burns fine, even 8x on the fly!
Reinstall 98se.. and still has errors "invalid write state". It's the latest download of Nero.... with all the usual via4in1 patches, etc. DMA is off (cdrom reads sloooowww if it's on)

Any ideas, before I end up dual booting.. 98 for work and games, me for burning.! stupid but maybe necessary..