Blank disc gets spat out at start of Burn step

iDVD 6 on MBP 2.2 Santa Rosa with UJ-857E drive that supports +/- R DL burning (according to System Profiler). I have some Memorex DVD+R DL blanks. I start the burn step in iDVD, insert the disc, it re-encodes the menus (performance-mode video encoding is already done), then as soon as it hits the step where it starts writing to DVD, the disc ejects. iDVD marks the step as done, then becomes unresponsive, and eventually I have to force quit it.
Help?

Okay, I'm getting a step farther along, but still not there yet. iDVD successfully created the image, Disk Utility loads it and prepares to burn...
Then I get the message "Device failed to calibrate laser power level for is media", which apparently indicates that the media is low quality and/or the laser lens is dusty.
I'll try blasting a compressed air can into the drive slot, and hopefully my local Apple store has a different brand of DL DVD, because this was the only kind being sold at the CompUSA.

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