DVD+R burn quirk in Leopard

Hi, I usually use DVD-R but the last shipment was DVD+R and I didn't notice or I'd have sent it back. Anyway it used to all work fine but in the last little while (since OS 10.5.1 or 10.5.2 I'm not sure) I've been consistently getting failed first burns and successful second one. Like clockwork. The first disk is unusable and while the finder still shows the first burn folder I insert a second DVD+R and burn it without problem. This smells like a bug to me. Can anyone shed any light on it? It's Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD+R and I archive still photography if that's relevant.
Many thanks,
Dave

So much for that idea, I loaded OS 10.4.6 on a spare partition, booted and the finder still fails to burn DVD+R on the first try. Maybe there's a cache or something created in leopard or something, maybe I should have cleaned everything up with Onyx first, I don't know, I'm not giving this any more energy. DVD-R's burn fine I'll stick to those for now.
Dave

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