Blank disks don't appear on desktop or in finder

After I insert it and choose open in finder it's nowhere to be found even though it shows up in disk utility. I checked the finder preferences to make sure media should show up and in system preferences it's set up to ask what to do. Any disk that has already been burned shows up, and I've tried using different blank CDs and DVDs (all from the same packs I've used before with no problem). Help, please!

Hi Pandora,
I had this same issue and after asking around and trying all kinds of things stumbled into the fix. Hope this does it for you too! Here is a link to how I did it. Post 3 I believe.
Kevan
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=939200&tstart=0
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