Burn command in iPhoto not working

The Burn command in iPhoto 5.0.4 Share menu stopped working with 2 Pioneer burners installed in my G4 MDD. The only change I made some time before this problem started was OS X 10.4.10 update. Everything worked fine in 10.4.9.
Now whenever I click on Burn in iPhoto, it seems to start burning, but changes almost immediately to "finishing burn" and the following message is displayed depending on the drive selected:
"The burn to the PIONEER DVD–RW DVR-104(or PIONEER DVD–RW DVR–111) drive failed. The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry."
The disc remains unused and can be successfully burned in another application.
Both burners work OK in Disk Utility and in Roxio Toast.
I am rather concerned with this problem and will appreciate any help. Thanks. Josef

I have resolved my problem, and thought I'd share the solution.
1. tested burning to a DVD directly from finder. Worked fine. so I knew the media was fine, and the hardware was fine, and the driver was fine.
2. Therefore, problem is iPhoto. But what?
3. From iPhoto, export your photos (same set you wanted to burn) to a folder somewhere. In my case, this action FAILED. Some of the files could NOT be created. By looking at the files exported before the failure, I could determine which photo was "bad". Tried opening that photo for editing in iPhoto, and it was not there! There was a thumbnail, and file info, but no actual photo.
4. I searched the iphoto directory structure and found that the original photo file was there. So, from iphoto I selected the bad photo and did "revert to original". That worked, and now I could see the photo in iphoto edit mode.
5. Try exporting to a folder again. Again...find another bad photo...repeat above process....until you can successfully export all the photos you want to burn.
6. Now, try burning to DVD from iPhoto again. For me...this step worked. Yay.
I have no idea how I got so many corrupted photos in my library. But, I suspect is was a result of a couple years of collecting photos and moving iphoto libraries around, etc. I spent a whole day fixing up all the corrupted photos in a 7,000 photo library. Ouch. But now, burning works fine.
The real problem here is that iPhoto doesn't give a useful error message when it can't burn the image.
I hope this procedure helps someone.
jeremy

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