i'd recommend the use of qemu, which is available for windows, or linuxes, which can emulate booting a cdrom iso, so that before you burn you'll have an idea of whether the iso can boot, and what it will look like when it does.
this is the site of the creator of qemu, Fabrice Bellard:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
a link for installing to puppy:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 47&t=10188
and Erik Veenstra's site, for prepackaged usb-ready qemupups:
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/qemupuppy/index.html
once you've got a working qemu on you computer, then you can test booting cdroms with:
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qemu -L . -m 128 -cdrom name-of-distro.iso