Help! Is my internal dvd burner on the outs?

I've been trying to burn a idvd movie. I saved it as a disk image. Everytime I load a blank disc in it spits it out. No real error message, it just doesn't recognize the disk. Out of 50 or so tries I've got 5 burned, and those 5 got an error message during the verify process. They wouldn't mount and some chapters on the disc are unable to play in my player. So is it on they way out? What internal burner is a good replacement? I remember reading about a $45 one but couldn't locate the thread. I currently have a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-103.
By the way it reads and imports cd's just fine.
Thanks.
G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  
G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

i found some older post just upgraded to PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D

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