CD/DVD BURNERS?

[Alfred]

Hi:

It is really nice that we can make a copy of a Linux Install CD, and
then give it to someone else so they can enjoy Linux too. Trouble is
that none of the CD/DVD Burning Programs work. Brasero will read the
source disk and report several thousand percent of the disk was read,
but then it crashes, not making a copy. CD/DVD Gnome Baker sees the
Drive as a SCSI unit even though it is an IDE unit, and it says you need
to be Root to have the permission to open or mount this drive, and then
you need permission to make a copy of the ISO file too. It reads the
source Drive, and then writes in Simulation the copy, and then asks if
you want to do it for real, but then it fails. So it does not work,
without Doctoral Knowledge of the inner workings of Linux. Graveman does
the whole Reading of the source disk, but then it fails to write,
because of no permissions.
KB3 used to work in a much earlier version of Ubuntu, but now it does
the write in simulation, and fails to write the copy in just coming up
with an error. Is there any way left to be able to make a clone of an
Install CD. I know in an earlier more recent version there was mention
that the K3b with it was a beta version. For making Copies of CD's it
used to work very well. CD/DVD creator used to work very well, but now
no longer does. Are there any CD/DVD Cutting programs that actually
work, without the need of going into terminal and casting incantations,
or having to call on Harry Potter, to get things working?

Alfred!