Superdrive works on XP/bootcamp but not on OSX?

So, I've been through this a billion times. Even time-machined & formatted. But nothing works..
I went through about 200 DVD's trying to put together a proposal for school and it kept failing to burn. With Toast, Disk Utility, Drag&Drop notta. Finally pulled the data onto my external, booted into Windows using boot camp, used nero, and worked without a Hitch.
I've tried every trick on this site and on every other site possible. Tech support says that i'm free to pay em to replace the drive and tried arguing with em bout the bootcamp working etc.. (long story), but eh... fail! (mac support = worse then windows at this point)
I have a hard time feeling this is a Hardware issue since it works on the Windows BootCamp partition but not on the Mac OSX 10.5.4 partition.
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E:
Firmware Revision: ZA0E
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds
I'm not as fluent in mac as i am with windows (MCSE/MCSA) but going to 2 years of electrical school I damned well know this most likely is a software issue not hardware.
After spending three days reading in this forum i havn't found anything that works or similar to someone saying it works in bootcamp partition but not osx... sooo just curious if anyone's got any ideas worth while..
thanks!

There is no way to do this and I don't believe Apple would view this as an "issue"; in my humble opinion, it is because iMacs have a gorgeous display (your choice of 21.5 or 27") and therefore were not necessarily designed to be used with a second display, whereas laptops were - hence the available option to use it in clamshell mode:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3131
Edit: You can create a totally black image and use that as your desktop picture if you like.
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