CD-RW rejected by MBP

My MBpro 2.33GHz won't accept CD-RW media and ejects them emediatly. The strange thing is that other media like CD-R, DVD-R and DVD-RW are no problem.

Kappy, Thanks for the helpful reply.
I tried Data Rescue II, but the demo download could not find anything on the CD-RW, not even the recently added small file, which I have accesssed to prove it is there!
FileSalvage requires OS X 10.3 on which will not work with my 10.2.8.
Looks like I just have to say goodbye to that data and regard it as a learning event. It does show the disadvantages of CD-RW.
If I had been using ordinary CD I would still have the data.
Thanks for your ideas.

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