Help making mix cds

Ok, I am sure there is a way to do this, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how. I have a cd that is one big mix, even though it is several tracks. How do I rip the songs off the cd as one big track so there are no pauses between the “songs”? I tried ripping them as several tracks and then re-burning without pauses, but Nero gives me an error saying I have to have 2-3 seconds between each track. This blows. It wouldn’t be so bad if Windows XP saw each track number so I could put them in order, but for whatever reason, it doesn’t. It assigned track numbers to some of the tracks, but not all of them. The only other thing I can think of is creating a playlist in Winamp and manually putting the tracks in order so at least I can listen to them on my computer in the order that makes sense and keeps the one long continuous beat going strong.