Burned CDs no longer play on imac G5 - commercial CDs play okay

My imac G5 is no longer recognizing any previously burned CDs. When I inset the CD I get "You've inserted a blank CD. Turn burn items on the CD....." etc. The CDs play okay in my CD player, just not on the imac.
The imac still recognizes and plays commercial CDs and CD ROMS.
I updated to iTunes+ two days ago. Since then I have been getting occasional "You're attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media." I have burned several CDs that also play on my CD player but will not play on the imac once the disc is injected and reinserted into the imac.
I have run the utilities disc and done repair file permissions. I have run the repair utility and get a "No problems found" result. I have also run a memorex cd cleaner disc.
I would suspect a hardware problem except it is only the discs I have burned that I get the "blank cd" notification.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? This is driving me nuts!!!!
Thanks for any suggestions.
Phil

iMacs are notoriously picky about CDs and DVDs. I suggest you post to the iTunes forum, they are more likely to have experience with this sort of problem: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=789
although I looked through the old posts there and couldn't find an exact duplicate of your problem.
If you find a solution, please let us know,
Miriam

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