My Dvd player won't burn discs

I upgraded my Imac to Snow Leopard (10.6.1), since doing this I haven't been able to burn DVDs. I have a MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846 drive and I was trying to burn onto a memorex dvd-r disc.
I get this error message: "The disc can’t be burned, because the device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media."
Can someone please tell me what's going on here? I would appreciate any insight you all could give me into this problem.
Message was edited by: J626jones

Having the exact same problem. Drive worked fine with OS X 10.5. But, as soon as I upgraded to 10.6.1, it will not work. This is what my system profiler says:
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E:
Firmware Revision: ZA0E
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
There seem to be some old posts I found that mention a firmware upgrade, but nothing new on the subject.

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