Cdrecord not working - please help!

[Steven Pasternak]

I use FC2 kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and cdrecord 2.01.1-0.FC2.1 and cd burning WON'T 
WORK!! I have /usr/bin/cdrecord set to 4711 and /dev/hdc set to 666 and no 
luck! the md5sum checks out, and even burning as root doesn't work! I went 
through 3 CD-Rs and all wasted. My burner has a light that is green when 
reading, yellow for something else (I think fixating) and red for burning. I 
have tried command line and k3b. It will "start writing", be red for 1-2 
seconds, then switch from yellow to green many times. I try to kill it, but 
1. it wont die 2. it won't let me open my cdrom (even with eject, which 
freezes). Finally, after a minute, it dies and gives me a worthless, dead, 
partially-written-on cd-r. cdrecord says that it couldn't fixate disk. Could 
it be cdrecord, permissions, or the kernel itself? Thanks!
-Steven