Since I was very happy with Debian unstable I installed that again, a bit f testing and everything runs great again, except for k3b.
I have been using k3b without problems since my early RH8 days now so I was really bummed.
What bummed me even more is that I have been unable to get it to run for 3 days now, no matter what version of cdrecord and/or library I throw at it ...
Now I read some stuff about the setuid bit for cdrecord not being needed anymore and I started thinking.
I added myself to the sudoers list and started k3b as root ... and it worked

So I looked again at my debugging output file from k3b but I couldn't find anything in it that gives me a clue about what to do to be able to burn cd's without root access!
Here's the debugging output, could someone give me a clue please?
I'd love to be able to decipher this kind of things but for the moment it's just chinese to me!
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System
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K3b Version: 0.12
KDE Version: 3.4.2
QT Version: 3.3.5
Kernel: 2.6.12-1-686
Devices
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PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4012A 1.01 (/dev/hdd, ) at /media/cdrom1 [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM] [CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96P; SAO/R96R; RAW/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R]
LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163 GDHA (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/cdrom0 [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [None]
Used versions
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cdrecord: 2.1.1a03
cdrecord
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/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-1-686
/usr/bin/cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
/usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: '/dev/hdd'
devname: '/dev/hdd'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Error: Cannot gain SYS_RAWIO capability.Is cdrecord installed SUID root?
: Operation not permitted
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'.
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W4012A'
Revision : '1.01'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Current: 0x0009
Profile: 0x0008
Profile: 0x0009 (current)
Profile: 0x000A
cdrecord command:
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/usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdd speed=16 -dao driveropts=burnfree -eject -overburn -useinfo -audio -shorttrack /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_01.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_02.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_03.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_04.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_05.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_06.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_07.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_08.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_09.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_10.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_11.inf /tmp/kde-yc/k3b_audio_0_12.inf
Tried to install 2.6.11 but it's nowhere to be found ... so I'm stuck with either 2.6.12 or 2.6.8 which caused known problems with k3b.