My brother in law threw away maybe a hundred CDRs after finding he
could not write multiple sessions getting an error message that lead
him to belive the disc was bad. All that was needed was to eject the
disc and reload it so the burner could re-read the TOC after the
session was written. He thought the disc was bad since it "couldn't
read the TOC" (error msg)

That doesn't strike as particularly dumb -- the software should have been
able to reload the TOC.