Internal and External Optical drives troubles

Right, I have a Mid 2007 model Mac Mini (Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0016CBAFC309) with 1Gb of RAM, a 120Gb hard drive, and an PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K06 as the Apple shipping internal drive, and that originally shipped with Mac OS X 10.5.x, but now running Mac OS X 10.6.2.
Yesterday — after the installation of the recent 2010 001 security update — when I tried to burn a copy of the Ubuntu Studio disc image fora friend of mine, that the Mini point blank refused to cooperate.
And gave the following message when I’ve tried to burn various files to DVD with both the usual contextual menu “Burn to Disc” option, or with Disc Utility, OR with the open source software burner, Burn.
“The disc can’t be burned because because communication between the computer and the disc drive failed (error code 0x80020022).”
This occurs whether I use either the interior or external optical drive, whether I have the exterior hard drives I use for storage plugged in or not, and both before or after a permissions repair.
How do I get around this?
I’d like to keep burning my home movies to DVD: it did work fine, up until that update!
What is going on?

I don’t know if any one from Apple is reading this, but I thought I’s put this up, on my blog …
http://niknaksoldpeculiarblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/problem-with-optical-drives_0 1.html

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