DVD will not burn but CD will

I have a PowerBook G4 and a G4 desktop. The DVD burner on the desktop is an upgrade. Recently both machines have stopped burning a DVD but will still burn a CD. Both machines run 10.3.9. Is it possible that software updates may have updated the machines and interfered with the ability to burn DVDs? I just have a hard time believing that both machines would break about the same time.

I kept reading and found one reply to someone elses problem that was a fix to mine.
In System Preferences I selected open finder. That was all.
I tried it because it was easy and I hade recenty reinstalled the system in the laptop. It was already selected on the desktop but I changed it and reselected open finder there also and they both now work. Hurray!!!

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