DVD/CD burning now impossible.

As I've read, alot of disc drive problems...
Mine seems kind of particular.
blank CD-Rs are simply ejected from the computer, so I can't burn anything.
and blank DVD-Rs are accepted, iDvd even went through the process of pretending to burn my dvd project, but the discs don't work in any dvd drives.
In summation, can't keep a blank cdr in the slot, and dvdr burning is inoperable despite going through the motions

Yeah me too. I remember burning under Toast 7 and my media was burning @ 8x speeds. 6min for a 4gig dvd burn. now its 28min for a dvd burn @ 2x
I thought it might have been when I updated to Toast 7.1.2 The bought Toast 8 and still the same issue. So I back dated Toast to 7.0 again and the problem still there. So it must have been when updating the OSX that made it slow down. What version that was I don't know as now im on 10.4.9.
Sony and imation all burn @ full speed.
imatation printables (white cover on top) only burns @ 2x.
Now I know its easy to just say.. Yeah its the media of that type. Wrong.
I bought 2 iMac 20" machines on the same week.
The other iMac has a pioneer drive and not a MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846:
That iMac will burn any media type at full speed.
Mine will not due to the drive being different.
Im running a small business. I can't tell a client to go away and come back in 30min compared to get them a coffee and 6 min later its done.
Come on a I bought a new machine and its not working as it should.. Come on can't something be done?

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