DVD burner will not burn DVD-RW

CPU=Athlon 2000+
RAM=512MB 10ns
PSU=300W 240V
HD=Western digital 80GB 8MB cache ( WD800JB)
Motherboard=MSI K7n2g-L
Bios=4.1
VGA=Nvidia on board
VGA_Driver=6.13.10
Optical_Device=liteon SOHW-1653S
Other=NIL - OS is Win XP
I have a problem with my liteon DVD burner installation. Its a recently released model SOHW-1653s.
The drive has been installed and works fine for DVD-R single write DVD's and CD-R and CD-RW but will not erase or write to DVD-RW media. The errors I get differ when I try various DVD-RW media brands. from "illegal disk type " to " illegal mode for this track "
I put the drive in a socket 370 Celeron running Win 98 and it will burn both DVD-R and DVD-RW OK.
So in desperation, I then shadowed the harddrive on my MSI machine and reformated and reinstalled Win XP. The drive will still not recognise DVD-RW. I also tried various combination of media. mucking around with the IDE BIOS settings, changing around the drive from master slave configs and have uploaded the latest drive firmware and motherborad firmware. I contacted Liteon technical support and they advised to remove the nforce MCP IDE driver in leiu of a default one, but im not sure that is possible not to mention it probabaly would comprmise system performance.
The problem is obviously with the motherboard. Can anyone advise what steps to take to remedy the fault?
Thx

Thx Wonkaboy.
Well I didn't roll back ( to an nvidia dirver ) I went back to standard dual channel IDE driver - the XP provided one and the burner started to work. phew! Albeit at 2x DVD-RW instead of 4x. Not sure why that is....
Then I thought what the heck I'll try the nvidia driver that I had installed on the machine before I wrote the original thread. And guess what it also works. Im not sure what happened. Maybe a dll was not installed or something. I have spent 2 days on and off with all sorts of variations of hardware configurations including an OS reinstall. Anyhow it's working now and thats
PS: The driver that MSI provides is different to the one obtained by going directly to the Nvidia site. ie the nvidia one is 5.10.2600.412 dated 1/13/2004. And the one provided by MSI is 6.1.2600.0 dated 5/13/2002. Im now using the later one. I cannot say if the earlier one works.

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