Disk Utility Doesn't Seem To Give The Same Info On CDs-DVDs As It Used To?

It's not a serious problem - just a bit of a puzzle.
I only use Disk Utility occasionally but I was sure that when a DVD etc. was inserted, Disk Utility would give a rundown of Maximum size of the DVD (eg. 4.7GB), amount used (eg. 2.8GB) and space remaining.
Yesterday when I opened it , all I could get it to show about the "size" of an empty DVD-RW was:-
Total Capacity : 0 Bytes
Write Ability : Read Only (DVD-RW)
Other CDs and DVDs were similar.
There is no problem in so far as I can burn CDs and DVDs OK in spite of this apparently altered wording.
Am I imagining things or has the info layout changed slightly?
If it has, the only things I can think of to account for it are the fact that some months ago I upgraded to 10.3.9 and last month I installed Toast 7.
Can anyone shed any light ?
Ian.

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