I have witnessed Fireburner fall over for many reasons, and one of the most common is that the image I am burning from has corrupted sectors. This may occur from a bad read, or copy protection.
Have you used Fireburner's inbuilt image scanner? Its ok, but even if it does detect corrupted sectors in the image, what can you do with it?
Go to
http://www.geocities.com/cdmage/ and download "CDmage". This software can detect sectors that are corrupted better than Fireburner can, and it can also repair or rebuild the sector fields that are unreadable. Fireburner will burn a lot better with a "clean" image.