Blank DVD +R eject from drive

Alright, I've been burning things with these same dvd's for the past couple days without a single problem, but all of the sudden today, my drive keeps ejecting the blank dvd's. It still works fine with movie dvd's, cds, and even the same dvd+r's that have data on them. What happens is, I put a blank dvd in, it sounds like it's trying, then makes a noise like a rock is in there skipping around, then it tries again and ejects. I have a macbook pro bought december 2009 brand new. Any help would be great, thank you.

If there was something that just needed to be cleaned, I don't think that the other types of discs would be working. Everything gets read just fine except for blank dvd's...

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