Cannot Burn CD-R from iTunes

About week ago, could not completely burn CD-R on iTunes...was able to burn two out of 15 attempts. The error message "Attempt to burn a disc failed. Burn failed due to a medium write error." No such problems since bought this Mac little over 3 yrs ago (yes off warranty)
I am using Sony CD-R's and have tried using different speeds such as 2X and 4X. Have generally used Sony CD-R's without any problems until last week.
Am using iMac 27 OS X 10.5.8 with 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. The SuperDrive is OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5630A.
Any help appreciated!

Sorry, Walter. I can' t help except to say I have the same problem. The Itunes burn process either keeps prompting to insert a disk when I have put one in the tray., or it displays the message "The Attempt to burn a disc failed. The disc can't be burned; it might be incompatible with this disc drive. Please try a different brand of disc or try try burning at a slower speed".
I was trying a speed on 1x. There isn't a slower speed.
What settings do I need to make the CD burn to work?
These are the details of the CD burner
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5630A:
Firmware Revision: 1AHM
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh
The CD being used was a Sony CD-R 50cdq80sp5a. Haven't got a CD-RW to try but I do have 47 more CD-Rs ....! have raised a call with Sony

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