Disc drive ejecting dvd media

the drive in my Imac G5 2.1Ghz will not hold blank media disc in it they don't show in the finder i place them in to the computer slot drive less then a few minutes it ejects the disc. I have tried to rest the smu/pmu , the PRam , i even went as far to reset the nvram still the drive will not hold the blank media .It will however read pervious burnt dvd disc of the same carousel and pressed dvds.
any thoughts of what other step i should try would be appreciated
the Imac is running 10.4.11

It's DUST, yup, dust.
I was having the same problem no matter what type of media - movies would sometimes eject and I would put it back in a few times, then it would work.
Anyway, solution, clean it. You can use air, but that is not as good as what I did.
For $10.00 at best buy, you can buy this disk that has tiny cleaning brushes on it. Its called OptiDisc by memorex. At first it didn't play, and ejected of course, so, I put it back in and opened itunes, it's also an audio disc that will clean and set up audio and test it.
I did this last night after buying some DL Verbatium DVD's that kept ejecting, then I tried -R same thing, after the cleaning section, takes less than 2 minutes, every time I put in a blank DVD I got the what would you like to do.
It has nothing to do with the OS. I have a MB Pro with Tiger 10.4 as well as external HD with 3 partitions, with two bootable, one is 10.5.6 the other 10.5.8, before cleaning, all three OS'es ejected them, after cleaning it now works fine. Good for 30 uses and they recommend after ever 50 hours but since my macbook is one year old, I am thinking it will probably last for a long long time.
Hope this helps you as like me, you probably thought you had to get it fixed and even with Apple care you would be without your mac for days.
This fixed my problem and I bet it fixes a lot of peoples, especially dust, it does collect.
Thanks!

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