DVD STUDIO PRO 3  (Help, Please)

Have been authoring DVDs using this program for over a year now and have never had problem one with it. Until now...
After compressing and configuring in DSP I use the "Build & Burn" tab to burn the DVD. Several days ago I began to get the following error msg in the log:
The recording device reported the media error: Write error. (0x0C, 0x00.)
My superdrive spits out the DVD and I have been unable to burn using DSP.
Anyone out there have any idea where I'm going wrong?

Just to add. Yesterday I was burning the 37th disk from a batch of 100 with Toast 7. Never had a coaster. Suddenly at the end of the 'lead out' phase, the disk wouldn't finish burning, and the drive started making a wierd noise as if the mechanism wasn't quite able to grab and eject the disk, and an error message appeared suggesting a hard fault. Had to force quit and reboot, and when I did the disk mounted fine on the desktop, would play pefectly and ejected without issue. Tried again with another disk - same thing, although this time no warning dialogue. Tested using a different make of disk - no issues at all. Tested using the problem disks again but this time didn't burn a full disk just 1.5gb data - no issues! So nothing wrong with the drive, but without any noticable indication on the surface of the disks, there seemed to be a problem towards the outer edge that effected the lead out when the file was around 4.4gb. Go figure! Normally if there's an issue with blanks they either aren't seen by the drive at all, reveal themselves either during the burn or during verification.

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