Whitestar's CD burner lives! I got it working by copying the cdrom.sys and redbook.sys drivers from mabolgamp. Yup, you got it straight -- Windows pissed in its own oatmeal again. Gotta love it. Go, Microsoft....
As I had expected, once I got the physical CD drive working again, VirtualCD automagically began working again. Now as soon as I get the CD images copied back off minbar, whitestar will be all happy again.