Since your problems seem to in the Writing feature of EAC, I suggest you not use it. Not all burners are fully supported in EAC.
I suggest you extract in EAC and create a Cue Sheet then burn with CDRWin. Check out this URL for help: h**p://pages.cthome.net/homepage/eac/clone.htm
Although Acer's are not top of the line burners, thay are usually not that bad. Listen to the wave file in your wave editor of choice (windows media works if you have nothing else). Listen with headphones. Any pops? If yes, than your Acer is not good with Digital Audio Extraction. Plextor, Yamaha, and latest Lite-On are popular and do excellent DAE.
Also, try more than one music CD. If you then still have problems, try a different CDR media to burn to.
Also give the Yahoo EAC list a try. In fact, its good to sign up with the list for help. Give a search for help with your burner or post
your problems.
h**p://groups.yahoo.com/group/eac/archive/
By the way, which version of EAC are you using? EAC V0.9 beta 2
was just released (31/01/02). One thing good about this version
is that it has a new configuration wizard to help you set EAC up.
Give these suggestions a try and post your findings.