LEOPARD KILLS DRIVES

Im updating a MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz from 10.4 to 10.5 for a friend.
It read CD's and DVD's before I updated to 10.5...
Then guess what, All blank DVD's and DVD's that have been burned by myself DO NOT WORK!!
It spits them out. CD's are fine just DVD's....
LEOPARD KILLS DRIVES - I've just witnessed it.
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857
HAEA
I have tried PRAM, SMC, a re-install of 10.5, the firmware update through terminal and giving it a good tap whilst the disc is inside.....A 10.5.2 upgrade does not work either.
USELESS. It's also pathetic that there are so many complaints yet nobody from Apple can hold there hand up and say there will/may be a forthcoming solution. Just people who have forked out a lot of money to get the silent treatment. Perhaps thats why they drives are done away with... Get a Macbook Air!!

Of course...AHT, - not thinking, I haven't run an AHT. But I had done all the usual Repairing permissions etc. The drive was zeroed and repaired before I installed Leopard, and then when the drive went cuckoo - I re-installed Leopard again.
It's been given back to my friend now.. He has everything updated and reinstalled and everything is working nicely for him apart from the drive. I'd also just done his iMac 20" - no problem.
I have leopard myself, no problems. But I have a later machine (see below).
Just seems funny theres a lot of coincidence in similar posts...
It's just very annoying that these issues arise and are not always addressed.

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