Multiplexing/Burning Issues.

Grrr..iLife '06, what a dissapointment! I now have 3 machines that won't write DVD's..and yes, they did before. <end of rant>
On my Powerbook 1.33 (the only machine where iDVD doesn't almost immediately crash) it will go through a LONG rendering and encoding process and somewhere along the way spit the disk out with the messages: Burning Finished Errors were found during the buring process. The twirl down arrow then says: "The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)"
Other times it does the same thing with the message that errors were found in the multiplexing/burning process.
The program then continues 'burning' w/out a disk, is unresponsive and in most cases has to be force quit.
I've tried 2 different DVD's thinking I might've had a bad one.
Ideas?
G5 1.8, G4 PB, eMac   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

Thanks for the response. I did all that (from that post earlier today..fonts and such) and believe it or not, the problem appears to be the media. I was trying to use printable Memorex DVD's and they just won't work on this machine... When I switched over to 'regular' Imation 8x DVD-R's.. The disk wrote just fine.
Now I gotta see if I can get this working on the G5 since it seems to like the printable disks just fine.
Weird stuff.

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