Should I take my laptop to an apple repair shop? Burner/Drive Problems

I have a MacBook Pro. In the past I have used IMovie and IDVD to create/burn dvds for myself without any problems. Recently I tried to do this several times but IDVD always got stuck in the "clean up" phase and the DVDs were empty. In order to close IDVD, I have to "force quit" the application. I thought that I committed some sort of technical blunder during the burning process and tried to burn dvds using Titanium 8, but I received error messages (The drive reported an error sense key=medium error:sensecode=0x73, 0x03) and my computer could not burn the dvds. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? Are there any recommendations as to how I'd go about fixing this? Thank you!

before going to the repair shop i'd try
1. different media than what you are currently using. I recommend Verbatim DVD-R Minus media.
2. drag and drop the plist for iDVD to the trash
"com.apple.iDVD.plist"
3. Repair Permissions on the HD
applications>utilities>apple's DU
4. Restart
5. Burn from a disc image at 4x or slower using apple's DU or Roxio Toast
6. Use a quality DVD Lens Cleaner kit from Maxell or 3M Scotch
Hope this helps to answer your question.
SDMacuser

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