DR-8a wont play written dvd's!!!!!!

I've just bought this drive, before i had a ricoh 2.4+r drive, and have written a few discs using it. These discs for some reason will not open or play using the DR-8A. (strange). it plays cd's fine and pre-recorded dvd's fine but just won't play anything created with my old drive. I know these discs are fine as they have played in other dvd-roms and on dvd-players. Thought it could be a firmware issue but havn't seen any firmware upgrades as yet. Have posted query to MSI TWICE but still no reply.
ANYONE GOT ANY IDEAS?
AMD ATHLON XP2600+
768MB PC2700 333MHZ DDR RAM
80Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm HDD
Samsung 160Gb 7200rpm HDD
64MB MX440 DDR AGP Graphics
Black Zorro UV moded case
MSI KT4V Motherboard
MSI DR-8A DVD+/-RW & RICOH MP5125A DVD+RW

I am also having trouble with the above, recently purchased drive. After burning data to a rw disk, which the software says has been successful, the bloody drive will not see the disk, nevermind it's contents...Keeps telling me there is no disk in the drive. It appears that I have no Access to three dvd-rw disks now!!!. I'll be interested to see if there are any other problems with this drive, cause if it doesn't start doing it's job quickly..It's going back!!
Pheww...feel better getting that off my chest!

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