Disc Drive rejects DVD-RW & DVD+RW discs

the drive on my macbook accepts dvd-rw and dvd+rw discs but can't read them and subsequently ejects the discs. how do i solve this problem? please help as i have a bunch of these discs.

Thanks. No, it was from an old BBC television series. But maybe I jumped the gun. It has now (first DVDs after new installation of disc drive) rejected three (an old Japanese movie, the American TV series Beautiful People) and accepted three (a BBC TV series, and 2 old English movies) - all of these are from the local library.
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA32N:
Firmware Revision:          KE06
Interconnect:          ATAPI
Burn Support:          Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache:          1024 KB
Reads DVD:          Yes
CD-Write:          -R, -RW
DVD-Write:          -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies:          CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:          To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh

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I've spent hours and hours trying to fix it, and have found nothing really worthwhile online. I'm coming here in the outside chance someone else may have experienced something similar.
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one) obtain the one you want, have that Geek Squad rep install it for ya right there, No, there should be no dropping it off, USB hookups are quick. You might have to spend a coupla' minutes there though. It works...Great, it don't then have them
find one in your price range...put the onus on them....they sold it to you, have them figger' it out!!!! :=))
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