Media Drive won't accept new/blank CD-Rs

I just bought a spindle of TDK CD-Rs. While my iMac's Media Drive is accepting regular CDs, blank DVDs, etc., it just spins, tries a few times, and then spits back out these new CD-Rs.
I have tried the same discs on my MacBook, and they spin up normally (and the OS asks me what to do with the blank media).
Is there any reason someone can think that these CDs won't work on my iMac?

Hey
I'm having pretty much the same problem, only that it's on my macbook.
My drive has no problems reading bought or burnt CDs and DVDs, and also accepts blank DVDs, but it just won't take blank CDs. It doesn't make a difference what brand I use. The drive just always starts up, then slows down again, tries this 3 times, and then ejects the CD.
I already tried booting while holding the eject key, and also the drive-reset which was described for the macbook pros (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2839), but nothing worked
have found a way to make it work again?

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