Cannot Burn to CD

Hello all.
I was trying to burn an album of less than 100Mb to a CD, all I get was this error message:
Burn Failed
The burn to the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-845 drive failed. The device failed to calibrate the laser power for this media
How? How can I solve this? Thanks and cheers

howwow:
Are you able to burn to the same media from the Finder? The first thing I'd do is run a CD cleaning disk on your drive. It's a long shot but wouldn't hurt. Then try a different brand of CD. If you can bum one from a friend to see if a different brand would solve that problem.
A user is this thread (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=782734) fixed his problem by changing to Maxell CDs.
The user in this thread (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2005339) solved it by replacing the drive with a newer one for $35.
In this thread (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1522878&#1522878) the solution was cleaning the drive's laser with compressed air.
Do you Twango?

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