Panther (10.3.2)'s Disk Utility burns CDs mountable by OS9 but not by OSX itself?!!

I'm playing with my new 1.25GHz iMac 20" and Panther (10.3.2), finally.
However, it seems that when creating a new disk image in Disk Utility
and subsequently burning a CD from it, the burned CD will not mount in
OSX. It does, however, mount on my old Beige G3 running OS 9.2.2.

Creating and burning a CD by opening a disk image session in the Finder,
however, _does_ create an OS-9-and-X-mountable CD.

Using Disk Utility to burn a disk image originally created by the
Finder, however, does work, so it appears to be only disk images created
by Disk Utility itself, regardless of the type of image Disk Utility
creates.

This phenomenon occurs both with the internal SuperDrive and with an
external FW/USB2 CD-RW.

Does anyone know if upgrading to 10.3.3 or 10.3.4 will address it?

Van

 

I don't know, but I'm curious: why would anyone using 10.3.2 not upgrade
to 10.3.4? It's free, and there is a reason why it's called an upgrade:
it fixes bugs. m.

 

I'm still reading up on the reported side effects caused by the
upgrades. For instance, 10.3.3 upgraders reported problems mounting
certain USB flash drives; 10.3.4 upgraders reported Help Viewer crashes
in Apple apps, VirtualPC broken, and SSH failing to connect. Also there
are issues with applying upgrades incrementally (10.3.1 -> 10.3.2 ->
10.3.3 -> 10.3.4) vs running the combo upgrade (10.3.x -> 10.3.4 in one
step).

While upgrades often fix bugs, they sometimes introduce or reveal many
others. :-/

Van