[DEMUG] Writing a CD

[Dick Atlee]

This may seem like a pretty elementary issue to many of you, but today 
is the first time I've tried to burn a CD on a Mac, to archive some 
mail.  It didn't go well.

When I first put in an unformatted CD-RW (and later a CD-R), it asked me 
what I wanted to do with the unformatted disk, and, gullible me, after 
first having it call the Finder and having a comment about the disk 
being unformatted, I decided it should call Disk Utility instead, and 
regrettably made that action the default.  Disk Utility didn't enable me 
to do anything with the disk, and now that I've Googled how to write 
CD's on a Mac, and see that I do indeed need to have the Finder 
involved, I can no longer get a prompt to use the Finder, having 
declared Disk Utility to be the default action.

How does one cancel the default-action-on-CD-insert?  And should I 
assume that there is no need to format a CD, that that is done as part 
of the burn?

Thanks for any help on this.

Dick