Cant burn DL DVD after Leopard Install

Hi, Hopefully Im not the only one having this problem after installing the new Leopard OS X (and from doing extensive google searches it doesn't look like I am). Hopefully someone has a solution because calling into support they didn't.
Previously with Tiger I could burn to all my Memorex DVD+R DL discs. Now no such luck. I get error codes from finder that say:
Burning the disc failed because communication to disc drive failed. (Error code 0x80020022)
When burning in Roxio Toast Titanium 8.0.3 I get the error:
The drive reported an error:
Sense Key = HARDWARE ERROR
Sense Code = 0x44
INTERNAL TARGET FAILURE
My drive information is:
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E:
Firmware Revision: ZB0E
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, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds
Note: never had any of these problems until installing Leopard so I highly doubt the disc drive is toast. Also can burn to all other media just not DL dvds. The macbook is only 5.5 months old.
Really don't want to have to send away and be without laptop. Hope someone can help and Apple fixes this leopard bug soon.

The drive will be degraded to this if you have Parallels (3.x) running. I have proved this by displaying the profiler when it is running and when not (suspended). The profile for the drive is different in each case and the DL capability is there when it is not. It is possible that VMWare Fusion may do the same
That said I cannot make a copy of my Leopard DL install disk. The cdr file was created fine on disk using DU, and can be installed to an external drive using DU Restore. The result is a bootable external drive which works fine. However I cannot get the same image onto a DL DVD using DU or Toast 7. The disk writes fine, but when reinserted into the drive it whirrs for a while and then ejects. Any ideas?

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