Ejects disk after writting, but nothing written?

Hi!
Yesterday was a bad day! (see my thread about my iPod as well)
Anyway, I set a dual layer DVD encoding before I went to work yesterday, as it takes like 4 hours, and thought it would be done when I get back.
I return home to find the dvd ejected like normal, but the meesage on the screen didn't say "Insert another disk, etc. and 'DONE'" button. Instead it wrote "Finishing operation..." and the blue bar was half way across, and not complete.
I put the disk into my DVD player to check and it said no disk. Checked it onthe computer and it said that it was empty.
Does anyone have any clues?
Thanks in advance
Rob snow

I will try burning to disk image, as it gets very expensive writing to dual layer disks.
Emtec is the brand. Unfortunately i don't much choice where I am, and TDK are double the price of the ones I do use.
I deleted the preferences and did disk permissions and optimized the drive that the dvd project was on. Will see if this helps and report back. It is writing again now, but wont know until I get home.
Thanks for the advice

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