thanks for such a quick reply!
I just (half an hour ago) found the solution to the cdrtools compilation problem. It seems that the sources are "not ready" for the more recent kernels. The error was something about ld not finding lscg:
"/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lscg"
here is the patch
http://lfs.securewebservices.co.uk/p...el_2.6-3.patch
but I had to change the sources by hand since I was trying to compile a newer version. Well, it worked. I also compiled cdrdao and k3b from the cvs tree (k3b needs jack-devel which doesn't come with Suse 9.2).
I can't say how it works now - I will test it more and then post my result in case someone else will find it useful. By now, burning iso images seems to be working with cdrdao (using k3b frontend). cdrecord (cdrtools package) produced a memory allocation error when I tried to burn an iso file.