Problems mounting a Sony DVD+R DL disc

Hi I have a MacBookPro 2,2 - Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.33 GHz - 15''
When I load a blank Sony DVD+R DL 8.5gb - AccuCore - RW - disc into Finder it shows up fine, burns without a problem (I burned it with finder), mounts after its done without a problem, it ejects without a problem.
Now when I try to use the disc the next day. It wont mount. The drive tries to read it for 30 seconds and than just ejects it back out. I have Toast 7 Titanium but I mainly use it to make movie DVD's with DVD+R's for clients.
I thought maybe the disc's are bad or something. So I did a little experiment using Parallels Desktop with Windows XP SP2 on it. It loaded the disc into the drive and it showed up. Seems that the drive nor the disc are the problem but the OS.
Any help on this would be awesome.
MacBookPro 2,2 - Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.33 GHz - 15" Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Raul,
No thanks to yourself and Sony you are in this pickle. You allowed yourself to have less than 2 copies of your data, and Sony for not following the DVD+R DL standard that Apple has tried to follow with the rest of the industry. Unfortunately the rest of the industry can't agree upon a standard. It really is too bad that's the case, but that's the situation with the bleading edge on media format. DVD-R is more reliable than DVD+R DL.
That's where the problem happened. Apple didn't tell you to delete the data.
My suggestion is to follow my backup FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
to avoid such problems in the future.
You may be able to recover the information with Prosoft Data Rescue, or Subrosasoft's File Salvage.
Good luck!
* Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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