Imac won't play burned cds since itunes+ update

After I updated itunes to 7.2 my imac will no longer recognize any CDs I have burned. I get the standard "This disc has not been formatted" etc. The CDs will play on a regular CD player but not the imac. The imac will play all of my commercial CDs without problem. I have tried the utility disk repair and it says it finds no problem. I have updated permissions.
I downloaded the update a 2nd time and tried reinstalling it but I don't think it is since as soon as I click install it says installation successful after about 10 seconds.
Any ideas what could be going wrong? Seems that if it were the CD drive it wouldn't play the commercial CDS either.

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