I cant burn cds :(... T-T

so k3b doesn't work and gnome baker doesn't work (both are cd/dvd burning apps for kde and gnome respectively. the underlying problem is crecord the app that both applications use to write to the discs. it doesn't seem to have the needed permissions to write the discs.. i honestly dont get why.. i'm thinking to go try burning a disc why logged in as root and see what happens (thing is i set the program group usage to root and it didn't work.. this is quite annoying now.