Cannot burn and erase rewritable DVDs

Hi all,
two month ago I ordered the new MacBook Pro 13" (early 2011). Some days later I wanted to erase a rewritable DVD to burn an iDVD project I just finished. I tried to erase the DVD with the hard drive program that comes with every mac, but the status doesn't change, it's always saying to "prepare" the erasure. After some minutes it stops and a message saying that the disk has been successfully erased appears. Ejecting and inserting the DVD makes all files visible again, the optical drive made nothing.
It's nearly the same with burning DVDs (I tried several programs). In iDVD, he "prepares" the burning for some minutes, and afterwards, a message declares the DVD as successfully burned. Ejecting and inserting the disk - NOTHING happened, there are no files on the disk.
I tried several brands, no improvement. I have absolutely no problems with CDs, no difference whether I use +R/-R or +RW/-RW disks. And the technical details of my MacBook Pro also say that burning rewritable DVDs is no problem.
Thanks for possible solutions and ideas,
jalfke
Technical details:
MacBook Pro series 13" early 2011 (the "newest" one)
Intel Core i5 @ 2,3 GHz
4 GB RAM
500 GB HDD
Optical Drive: MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-898

Sorry for the bad information, the program I mean is die "Disk Utility" in Programs -> Utilities. Erase and burn images on rewritable DVDs should be possible with this utility. I have absolutely no problems with "only-once"-writable DVDs.

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