IDVD Will Not Complete Burning

I'm not quite sure why iDVD is having this problem. I have been able to burn DVDs in the past using the app, and all of a sudden, it won't seem to complete fully what I direct it to do. Can someone help point me in the right direction? This the screen I get--the DVD will pop out, and iDVD will stay on this screen until I hit cancel.

I had trouble burning anything with iDVD, yet I was able to save what I was doing as a disk image, and that burned okay. I could burn a CD from iTunes fine. Didn't know what was going on. Someone suggested cleaning the burning drive's lens with a can of compressed air. I also changed dvd brands to Verbatim (usually works fine) and S*ny. tdk may work....anyways, long story short, I'm back in business burning stuff with no problem whatever. repairing permissions and trashing preferences may help, too. Just posting this in the hopes that it may help someone. btw, I have a stock Optiarc drive and a Lite-On
snagged from a PC (yep, works fine, too)
there you go
John B

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