My mac mini is not burning CD's.

My mac mini is not burning CD's. It can read CD's but writing CD's doesn't work, but burning DVD's works fine.
If I burn from iDVD it works fine but if I create a Burn Folder and drag Pictures from iPhoto to that folder it goes threw the process of burning but it spits out a Black CD. Any Ideas?
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