Mac mini ejecting disk

when i put a DVD-R in my 06 intel mac mini it whirs and then ejects it works with other disks but not blank it i looked in the communities earlier and someone said it might not be able to write but in my system profiler it says it can anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
thanks.
MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8124:
Firmware Revision:          DACH
Interconnect:          ATAPI
Burn Support:          Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache:          2048 KB
Reads DVD:          Yes
CD-Write:          -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD:          Yes
Write Strategies:          CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw
Media:          No

Might try this...
Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238

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