IDVD no longer sees my DVD-R's to burn

I just got done making a small movie in Imovie for a friend, and can't get IDVD to burn it now. I put in a Verbatim DigitalMovie DVD-R like I've always used in the past, but it just keeps telling me "Disc Insertion... Please insert a blank DVD-R disc" and kicks the disc back out. Now its been a few years since I've done a movie (3-4 probably), and I think I upgraded to OSX 10.3.9 since the last movie i made. Thats all I can think of that may be different. I have an Imac, 1.25Ghz Power PC G4, and know that I should upgrade to newer software, but one I don't have the money and two I'm happy with the system I have. I'm not sure if the move to 10.3.9 was the culprit or if my Superdrive has taken a dump. I can burn CD's all day, so I don't think its the drive. Please help! thanks

Hi
• a cleaning CD/DVD ?
My general (old) list
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
iDVD pref file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named. com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Program miss-match. iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match. iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
• Try a Cleaning CD/DVD that cleans the laser lens on the DVD burner/player
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Last resort. from Craig. Solved the problem!! Finally!!
I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
emptied the trash and then installed iDVD 08 using the customize option
and I am up and running.
If You do a re-install be sure to get rid of all iDVD old parts AND then EMPTY the Trash-basket !
iDVD updated ?
Apple Codec updated ?
Start a New Clean project - or delete project assets
No of Colors - must be set to millions
Yours Bengt W

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*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
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