Out of pure curiosity--anyone still use Toast?

Once in a while. Still works great.

Quite frequently.

Yep, use it all the time for various projects.

Do you guys find the burning utilities built into the OS not adequate or not as useful or flexible?

I use Toast 10 quite often...

Toast is much more flexible and has more options for burning/authoring formats (you can also burn multiple copies more efficiently, too).

Which is what??


Burn the disc. That's about you can do with the OS.

I use Toast 5.2 to occasionally dupe an audio CD. I don't think you can do that using the burning utilities built into the OS.

Not to sound like a commercial, but I've always been satisfied with Toast, and it's great if you have a reason to use it.

Data:
Mac only
Mac and PC
DVD- ROM
ISO
Photo Disc

Audio:
CD
Music DVD
MP3
Enhanced ACD

Video:
Video CD
SVD
DVD-Video
VIDEO-TS Folder
DivX

Copy:
Disc Copy
Image File
Bind-Cue Files
Disc Image Files

All of them have many options in a very (maybe old school) Mac UI.

I use it for backing up VIDEO-TS folders, deleting unused languages, previews, etc.
It's an alternative to iDVD with appealing menus and themes.
I use a lot of provided templates to make cheesy slideshows and movies for the relatives, but could be refined with effort.
Video CD's are great for small size content. Why use a DVD for 10 minutes of content that can fit on a CD?
I've had great luck with VCD.

Physical Media isn't dead yet.

Etc., etc.…

To me the options are worth it.