Roxio Creator LE not burning audio CD's

New (week old) Dimension E520 with Roxio Creator LE by Dell.  This will allow me to burn CD's from .WAV files that I transferred over from an old computer, and these CD's play fine everywhere.  Try to use Creator LE to pick new music off of purchased CD's (in .CDA) and burn to a new disc, and a few seconds of the first song plays (choppy sound) and that's it.  I also can't figure out a way on the new computer to save the tracks to the hard drive as .wav files.  Guessing that I am missing something simple.  Can anyone help?  If I burn the songs as .CDA, this should theortetically play in any CD player, but if I burn songs as .mp3 or .wma, then the CD player has to be able to read these file extensions, which many (say mid 90's OEM auto CD players) won't.  Is this correct?

 

Thanks,

Ron