Ok im calling in the big guns, you folks at cdrlabs, while at work today (staples) i bought the Hi-Val 52x24x52x burner
heres some info on it to help on this mystery:
Firmware: S027
Buffer: 2048K
has the 2 buttons at bottom right, eject and skip, volume and headphone jack bottom left
sorry i can't give ya any pics, but the firmware should be the dead giveaway if you know who makes it