the burned cd just simply shows "tracks 1 -17
That's correct. I think you're comparing apples and oranges. Gracenote or CDDB data has nothing to do with CD Text.
The CD Text option is stored as data as part of the burned files internally, either in the first lead-in area of the CD which has about 5KB of available space available, or as part of the subchannels which have a capacity of about 30MB.
First, make sure your CD burner is capable of burning CD Text. As Eos suggested in an earlier post, type 'drutil info' (no apostrophes) into the terminal and see what is says. This is the important line to look for:
CD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE,
CDText, Test, IndexPts, ISRC
If you don't see this, you don't have a capable burner. As we seem to be using the same Power Mac, that's unlikely.
Now, if you correctly entered this info in to Waveburner, you should see something like this if you type 'drutil cdtext' into your Terminal:
As you can see, the song titles are there between the 'string' tags. If you're not seeing this, then something went wrong in entering the CD Text data.