Blank DVD's no longer recognised

Since downloading the recent itunes 6.0.5 and quicktime 7.1.2 updates my mac no longer recognizes blank DVD's. Toast picks them up but then freezes eternally when trying to burn. Though Toast recognizes the media, no blank disk appears in the finder or on the desk top. I've never had any problem with this before, anybody have any ideas?
CD's are fine.
Cheers,
Ben
Power Mac G5 dual 2ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2.5GB RAM, 9800 Pro graphics

Sorted itself out through software update.

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Welcome to Apple discussions.
There have been discussions on this board before that indicate that some have experienced there DVD lens gets dirty or stops functioning.
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Mine never stopped working, but I replaced it for speed purposes with a 16x drive for a reasonable price.
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After I created my DVD, I put in a blank DVD and iDVD doesnt recognise it. It tells me to put in a recordeable disk. I've tried with a lot of new blank DVD's and same message. When iDVD is closed and I insert the blank disk, nothing happens. After a while the disk comes out without any message.
iDVD worked properly already several times. This problem is recent. I bought a new DVD to check if it was the DVD, but same problem.
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*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
iDVD pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named:
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I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
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