My DVD Drive Reads Burned DVD as a Blank DVD!!

Hey Peeps,
I have a Macbook Pro, running 10.4.11. I've copied a few of my own DVD's for travel so my originals don't get punished. I burnt them with Toast Titanium 8.0.3. I've tested with DVD player and my roommates intel iMac and they work fine, but when i put the DVD in my drive it reads it as Blank media or an "Untitled DVD". I've used the same disks and method of burning hundreds of times before with this machine, and all of a sudden it doesn't read the disks anymore. My originals work fine as well.
I've already tried repairing the permissions, removing all cache and preferences, as well and booting of the system disk and repairing the drive. There is a Gremlin in my Macbook Pro.

I'm having the same problem with my MacBook Pro but with CDs. I burned a CD today and titled it; when complete, it shows on the desktop with the correct title. I then double clicked it to check the files and they opened just fine. Then I ejected the disk and reinserted it, only to see an untitled CD with NO content. Gave that disk to a friend with a PC and it read normally. Called Apple and the rep, who seemed very knowledgeable, said he'd never heard of it before. Tried disconnecting all peripherals and using different brand disks, same result. This has happened before 10.5 as well.
I make my living with this computer so this is a major problem. The MacBook Pro has given me more problems than all of my other Macs combined, beginning with the 512K 20 years ago.

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Message Edited by GarenT on 10-07-2009 06:32 PM
Message Edited by RasterBlaster on 11-30-2009 03:51 PM
... an HP employee expressing his own opinion.
Please post rather than send me a Message. It's good for the community and I might not be able to get back quickly. - Thank you.

That's why you want to make a backup of the registry. If you didn't make a backup, use MS system restore to go back. The only values you should remove are UpperFilter or LowerFilter - one or both may be in there and can be removed. If neither value exists, then that is probably why you can't burn and Windows is not recognizing your drive as a writable drive.
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