Medium write error in itunes during "finishing" stage of disc

Hi all,
Have been browsing the forums this morning in order to solve my above problem - medium write error during cd burning. I am using Verbatim CD-Rs on a macbook pro version 10.6.7. I have slowed the write speed down as suggested to 4x but it always seems to be that my macbook pro spits the CD out during the last "finishing" stage. Have tried a cd lense cleaner...that hasn't worked. Please help!
Tom

I did try to burn 1st thing after a period of shutdown - twice.  No success.  First time, I tried with my "old" blank TDK media: medium write error @ just over 4 minutes remaining.  Second, after a shutdown, tried my "new" Verbatim blank media and got the same error, don't know the time as I wasn't watching.  I both cases, I left the computer idle during the burn.  And I add that I have successfully burned all of the (full) playlists I have been attempting to burn several times before, a year + ago, with no problems.
This problem has been around for YEARS, as is apparent from this and other forums, and seems worse or exclusive to burning CDs out of iTunes.  Does Apple just throw up their hands?  Would a visit to the Genius @ an Apple Store be worthwhile?

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    Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
    Media:
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    Interconnect: ATAPI
    Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
    Cache: 2048 KB
    Reads DVD: Yes
    CD-Write: -R, -RW
    DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
    Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
    Media:
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    Blank: Yes
    Erasable: No
    Overwritable: Yes
    Appendable: Yes
    Write Speeds: 8x, 24x
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    Interconnect: ATAPI
    Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
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    Blank: Yes
    Erasable: No
    Overwritable: Yes
    Appendable: Yes
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