No longer able to burn DVDs

My Powerbook is suddenly refusing to burn DVDs. I have spent the past couple of days testing with a variety of brands including Verbatim, but I get the error message 'Communication to the disc drive failed error code 0x80020022'. I can play DVDs and burn CDs as normal.
Does this mean that there is some sort of hardware error (I have tried cleaning the lasers with a DVD cleaner?) and I will no longer be able to burn DVDs? If this is the case what are my options? Is it possible to replace the Powerbook's superdrive, and if so is this expensive/complicated? Alternatively can anyone recommend an external DVD burner?
Thanks for your help

Hi Dave,
I'm not sure about your tech issue...
However I can recommend some good external DVD burners
LaCie is good (expensive)
LG - a friend has one and works very well
NEC - identical to LaCie but cheaper- if you do a search you will see that LaCie uses NEC drives in its products. You need to buy an external enclosure.
I recommend the NEC I've had one for over 2 years and still works flawlessly.
You should also consider (if you go with NEC) to buy an enclosure that has FireWire and USB 2
S
PowerBook 12 (home), PM G5 1.8 1 gig RAM (work) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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