External Burner Problems

I have an External Toshiba ODD-DVD RD-S5272 and have used it to burn hundreds of DVD's in the past.
It no longer is working.
Everytime I place in a new Blank DVD it tells me it is not Writable, even when they are the same discs I have used in the past and the discs are brand spankin' new.
When I look into the System Profiler, everything seems to be okay with the exception of it stating that Burning is now unsupported.
Having checked on some websites, I have been hearing that there is an update of the Firmware that should fix this.
My first question is will a Firmware update fix this problem?
My second question is; having downloaded the drivers for the firmware update, they only come in .exe files and cannot be opened on my Mac. How do you open these files and update the driver?
Any help will be appreciated.
On top of using the Toshiba Burner, both my computers are the Sawtooth G4 and the iMac G3.

Something strange has happened....
The Toshiba Drive is, and has always been DVD+R, DVD+RW. It says so on the front plate, and considering all the DVD+R media I have burned Video onto, it seems that yes indeed it is a + Drive.
However, after using a few various programs to try and figure out the problem with my Burner, I have discovered that + is no longer supported but I can now burn only with - Media discs.
Isn't that a little odd for a DVD+ Drive to no longer stop supporting + media and switch to -?
I tried burning a DVD-R and sure enough it worked.
Would Firmware have anything to do with this strange occurance?
Please respond...

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I realize I am far behind everyone else here; but here goes.
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I tried my hand with iMovie for the first time this Christmas using my digital camera in movie mode. Took a few minutes of the train set running around the tree.
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I tried Toast; but could not drag the iMovie into the the window (it just snapped back)?
The burner is 8X and I bought some 16x discs, is this wrong?
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Well, trying something different to get the DVD to record.
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Got BurnPatch. Taost now recognizing the burner after unplugging it and re hooking it up.
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http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/macsupport/mac_help/pages/0015-burn_idvdother.html
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OS X only sometimes recognises my external burner.

Support for third party burners being what it isn't in OS X, I keep coming across this little problem:
I have a LaCie external burner that works a treat when OS X can see it but sometimes it's just not there.
I mean, the system profiler can see it on the firewire chain, it just doesn't see it in Toast.
Obviously iTunes doesn't see it. But it never does, support for third party burners being what it isn't in OS X.
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Ah, well that's a relevant bit of info you left out.
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