CD-R burning failures in superdrive

I have successfully burned 2 photo cds recently but everything else has failed including other photo cds and audio cds. I transfered the files to my mothers white 2ghz macbook with only cd writer (not superdrive) and it burns them perfect 100% of the time using the same CD-Rs (Maxells).
I have a superdrive in my 2ghz black Macbook with Superdrive and I am using Toast 8 and Maxell CD-Rs. It usually gives me the following after writing about 70% of the disc:
Sense Key = MEDIUM ERROR
Sense Code = 0x0c
WRITE ERROR
The disc failed to be written
The last time it gave me this error:
Sense Key = ILLEGAL REQUEST
Sense Code = 0x30, 0x05
CANNOT WRITE MEDIUM -INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT
From what I have read about these errors, most people blame it on the media, but it works fine on the moms regular cd writer in her 2ghz macbook with the same CD-Rs. Are the Superdrives more sensitive to cheap media (although these aren't that cheap now in Canada $25/50). Does anybody have any ideas? One person reported updating firmware but that was for an external drive. Any advice would be appreciated.

Well I did the CD cleaner and then successfully burned a DVD, although burning CDs seemed to be the more difficult thing before. I am not sure if it was having a hard time burning DVDs before anyways.
If it can burn DVDs no problem, but not CDs, does that mean that it just doesn't like my brand of CDs? Or could it still mean some other problem? My moms white MB with combo drive burns these same CDs no problem.

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