CANT BURN DVD+R DL ON MY MACBOOK!!! :(

HEY!!!
I have a big problem, issue... I don't know... I have a MacBook 1st generation, and I want to burn a DVD with a movie that basically is about 7.2 GB... yes a little bit small ¬¬ So... I went very happy to Office Depot to buy a DVD+R DL for burning my beautiful movie, and then I fell in depression... my Mac does not recognize the DVD and ejects it every time I insert it; my computer does not recognize this tipe of CD's and is about to die, or... I need another drive, a REAL EXTRASUPERDRIVE... I have Toast Titanium 7...
So... What can I do? buy another computer (not a great idea... you know my economy I'm short), download a special software or driver, burn my DVD in 2 4.7GB DVD... or... you know what! HELP ME!!!
If you help me, I'm sure God will send to you 10 kids or Paris Hilton... who knows?
THANKS!

Your macbook does not have a duallayer burner in it, plain and simple. None of them did. The new ones do, with core 2 duo chips, but the old model, no.
You have 4 choices.
1. Sell the macbook, and buy a new one.
2. Buy just a new DualLayer Superdrive, and either install it yourself, or pay someone to do so.
(go here to see how: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/MacBook/Optical-Drive)
3. Buy a cheap external firewire DualLayer dvd burner and use that only when you need to do DL burns...the rest of the time, use the builtin.
4. Let toast compress the dual-layer down to 1-layer and use regular 4.7g DVDs. It works, takes a long time, but I can tell the difference in quality pretty easily. But it does work.
#3 is the cheapest option I think. Virtually any FW dvd/dl burner would do.

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i've had this problem with my drive. I never burned dvd's before. I own a macbookpro 15' since over a year and always burned cd's but never dvd's...
until a couple of days ago, i was ripping a dvd from a party of a friend of mine and wanted to copy it with toast... toast wasn't able to copy the it giving me error messages that the source file was damaged and cannot be read.
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