OS Lion reading old burned CDs as Blank

I am going through some burned CDs and attempting to copy them to my new iMac, but each one is being read as a Blank CD. Regular factory audio CDs seem to work fine. Any type of home burned CD is being read as blank. Any insight on how to fix this would be appreciated, thanks.

How old are these CDs? Burned CDs can go 'bad", especially if done onto inexpensive media. I wouldn't expect that kind of failure rate though. Still, if the drive reads regular media it isn't the drive as such. I guess it could be the drive doesn't like your older CDs (it isn't a case of software), but usually it happened that old drives could not read burned CDs and not new drives not being able to read older burned CDs.
Are these audio CDs and do they play on another audio player?
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Internal...
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http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/optical-drives/

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Dell Inc. Inspiron 1545
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Apple Application Support 2.1.6
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Intel Corporation, Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
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