My iBook ejects my archival blank DVD-Rs -- what to do?

I recently bought a spindle of fairly expensive MAM gold-plated DVD-Rs (x8 speed, 4.7GB) for archiving my photographs saved in iPhoto. For reasons I do not understand, the iBook ejects the discs almost immediately. I know that my iBook is equipped with a CD/DVD drive -- any clues as to what the issue is? Do I need to buy an external DVD drive? Anything I should be looking for?
Thanks.

Does your iBook have a combo drive (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or superdrive (CD-RW/DVD-RW)? A combo drive can not write DVDs.
Use System Profiler to get the details about the optical drive in your iBook.

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What you mean exactly? Does the drive does not recognize content on the media or there is problem if you want to burn data on DVD-R media?
Can you please explain all this a little bit more preciously?
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First thing is try another brand of DVD-Rs. Some are more reliable than others.
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My new iMac (and first ever Mac) arrived last
Wednesday. Over the weekend, I tried to burn some
quicktime movies to dvd.
Welcome to the club! Isn't the Intel iMac amazing? Although I have three other computers, each with different operating systems, they now sit 'in the dust' while I play with the iMac.
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Hummm... kinda odd. Can't remember if mine says CDR or DVDR. I don't have any "+" DVDs, all "-" ...
I thought that was strange, but decided to try
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"burn." Immediately, I received this error code:
0x80020000.
No idea what that is. One thought: do you have any .mov or mpg files you can test? If so, try making a sample movie using iMovie and and then iDVD. Don't put a blank in until iDVD says to and see if iDVD recognizes the blank DVD for what it is. That will tell you the Superdrive does work.
I use a program called Roxio's Titanium Toast, a program for burning CDs and DVDs instead of the system burning mechanism. Works great and I burn a lot of DVDs and CDs.
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If you're having troubles on the MacBook pro, I'll report your post so the hosts can move it for you.
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The specs for this drive are hard to find, but this came up with some Google searching:
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