DVD studio say's my DVD-r is unreadable???

Ok so I just bought a G5 and I also have a Ibook G4 booth new.
I also have my old G4 that I haven't changed any files from in a long time..
I transferd my files to both G5 and Ibook..
I built a DVD in DVD studio Pro 2 and went to burn it on my G5 and it spits out my brand new DVD-r says Please insert blank wirghtable DVD...So I decided to try it on the Ibook...Same thing...G4 ..same thing... So OK I try a bunch of them
all bad??? So I hop in my truck head out to Best Buy and get the best DVD-r's I could find...I come home all confident pop the new disk in my G5 No Go...
Ibook...Nothing...G4 nothing,,,
Now about a month ago I burned a DVD on the G4 with DVD studio Pro and it worked fine,,,
Also I opened taost on the G5 and it didn't read the disk....***???
How could this be on all the puters even the G4 that didn't change in forever..
BTW it plays Movies fine,,,,
It burns regular files onto DVD...Is it somthing in my DVD studio Pro???
HELP!!!
I've had an apple meltdown today...see other post
Thanks

I see you haven't gotten any responses yet so, although I don't have an immediate solution for you, I thought I'd at least ask some questions to keep the thread hopefully moving toward a fix.
What do the G5 and G4 iBook optical drives show up as in Apple System Profiler?
Can each computer successfully play commercial DVDs? (may have some bad hardware)
What happens when you put a blank DVD into the iBook G4 or the G5 while not running DVD SP (nor Toast, etc)?
When DVD SP asks for a blank DVD, do you already have the disc in the drive?
If you put a blank in when [after] it asks, does it; bring up an error, immediately re-eject the DVD, try to read for 5-20 seconds then eject, etc?
On each of these machines, if you open Toast, pop in a blank DVD that doesn't work in SP, and choose ''Disc Info...'' from the ''Recorder'' menu (in v6-Titanium, anyway), what does it report back?
You said you were able to burn data with the G4, but not video... how did you burn the data (Toast, Disk Utility, Finder, etc?)
Until you get this all straightened out, is there anything stopping you from exporting your final DVD to a file and burning using that disk image on the Mac that successfully burns data? (see: Apple instructions)
...and one final 'grasping-at-straws' question: Are there any Apple retail stores near you?
Anyone else with any ideas about this?
Joel

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