Experiencing weird burning behaviour on DVDs and CDs

Hello guys,
It's been a while since I last post.
Well i am experiencing different problems with my SuperDrive. These days I was trying to back up staff to DVD+R's (movies & mp3's). The disk mounts and is visible in Finder. I create the archive of the staff i want to burn and the disk burns fine. But when it comes to validation it fails and gives me a message that the disk is unreliable. Indeed the disk I burn is not readable. Any thoughts? Maybe the disk brand? I tired several DVD's and burning speeds. No result.
Also I cannot erase on my iMac G5, CD+RW disks i have burned on my Mac Mini. Any thougts on that?
The only thing my SuperDrive does well is burning CD-R/+R's or DVD-RW/+RW's. No problems there.
Could it be the brands I use or is it a flow on Mac OS? Would I resolve all these problems with a third party software?( Toast for example...)

I think you will find that DVD-R is the most widely recognizable Media used across the board.
There have been several reports of problems , even with the newer drives with +R and RW formats.
Even though the burners are suppose to use them.
Often a simple visit to the Dive Manufactures site or a Google search of your Model Drive and Burner will offer a Firmware update that many times will solve these issues.
Cheers Don

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