I have been trialing a full price version from work - never had any of the problems suggested.
I have burnt NRG files, MP3 to Audio CD, CUE files to Audio CD and never had an issue - all worked perfectly fine.
The only thing I don't like is the way it numbers the MP3's if you put a directory in there it takes there name from somewhere bizzarre (probably the ID3 tag) and then doesn't put them in the order of the directory - just something to be careful of..