Combo won't read burned DVD

Hi, i know this is not new but since i can't find any solution and apple support prefer staying behind the scene, i posted my problem.
I have a DVD with all my works files which is burned at the office using PC. Once i was home, i tried to copy the files to my emac (1,25 GH, 512, Tiger 10.4.2). It works for a while and then it stopped and saying can't find xxxxx file which is actually in the dvd. So i tried a couple times and did not work. I rejected the dvd for the first time it won't come out and i restarted the emac so it came out. After i restarted the emac, the combo drive won't take any burned DVD anymore ( i have memorex DVD) but it can take any comercial DVD or CD, e.g i insterted the Tiger upgrade DVD and it works good or Adobe CS CDs it works good. I was cleaning the lens using Memorex lens cleaner, it still throws my burned DVD out after a few second.
So what should i do? is it software or hardware problem? hey apple guys where are you !

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If you look over other posts in this forum, you'll notice a common current complaint involves using 8x DVD media; can you try using 4x media?
Also, there are differences between DVD-R and DVD+R media; for Ma cuse you'll generally want to use DVD-R.
As a general tip when burning CD-R or DVD-R on PCs to be read on other computers, burn the PC disc as a read-only (closed) disk. Leaving the disc appendable or multi-seeion capable can make it unreadable on other computers, even other PCs that don't have the exact version of the same burning software you used to create the disc. Finalizing or closing or making the dic read-only --- whatever the burner program calls that option, it tends to work better.

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