Snap, crackle, pop.. and tick under XP

I'm at my wits end trying to figure out why I'm getting ticks in some
of my rips.  EAC is reporting 100% or sometimes 99.9%, but some of the
songs have errors.

I've tried using both the Nero.dll and the native XP interface, tried
turning on and off caching, Accurate Stream, C2 functions and various
combinations of these functions.  Also tried setting Burst mode.  All
with the same errors, at the same places -- the ticks varying in
loudness was the only difference.  I can hear the errors also directly
playing the CD, and if I hold the disc up to a light, I can see the
small pinhole that's causing the ticks.

I can understand an error that EAC can't fix, but EAC is reporting no
errors!  This has happened on more than one cd  that I've ripped (5 or
so, out of about 25 do far.)

What's going on here?  I never had these problems under Win 95/98/ME.
Any help fixing this would be greatly appreciated!

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