"Well then I guess I have had two magical CD players from Honda."

Apparently so, because if you look through the archives and search this problem, you'll see it was common on the sixth generation head units.

"As I said, try different brands. All head units have problems playing certain types of CDs."

Not true; ALL my CD-Rs play fine in other cars ---- EVERY OTHER CAR I HAVE BEEN IN --- except for my 1999 Honda Accord.

"And why did you buy a new radio when all you had to do was get the security code"

*SIGH* Alright, let me explain what happened here.....he pulled the fuse which tripped the anti theft code for the radio, but the code that was supposed to be entered for my radio WAS NOT WORKING NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES WE ENTERED THE NUMBERS.....I brought the car to my dealer in NY at the time, who told me the radio was definitely defective because THEY couldnt get the code to enter either. They ordered me a BRAND NEW stock head unit for my model AT NO COST because this was just a great dealership (it was the dealer I bought the car FROM and had ALL my service done there too so they cut me some slack). It was a great deal I got from them.

BUT, the SECOND Honda/Alpine CD head unit did the EXACT SAME THING with the CD-Rs as my first one did.