DRIVE rejects every cd/dvd!

Hi All,
I recently had my Powerbook start rejecting all discs. I insert the disc, it appears to be trying to read it.. and then it ejects it. It never appears on the desktop or anything...
Any help out there?

Fair enough, and I appreciate the info; I will only purchase quality discs in the future. For software, I use Toast Titanium 8.0. I re-ran a simple burn and got the following errors:
"The drive reported an error:
Sense key = HARDWARE ERROR
Sense Code = 0x09, 0x09
TRACK FOLLOWING ERROR"
"The drive reported an error:
Sense Key = MEDIUM ERROR
Sense Code = 0x73, 0x04"
"The disc failed to be written."
The drive will now not accept the same "blank" DVD, and has subsequently spit out other blanks.
One thing I did fail to mention is that I switched btwn US and European DVD codes this summer, but switched back at the end of the summer. Could this have a lingering effect? As I recall, this problem occurred before the summer anyways. Cheers.

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