Sony DVD+R v1.2 bad discs?

I've burned DVD's on different brands, Philips, Sony, TDK, Fujifilm, Tevion and others but the recent Sony (DVD+R ver 1.2) ones are bad or is it my superdrive giving up? This is what I keep getting with toast 6:
The Drive reported an error
Sense Key= HARDWARE ERROR
Sense Code= 0x44, 0x06
INTERNAL TARGET FAILURE
I've just wasted 4 dvd's, which cost me 1 euro each. On 3 occasions I got the error at the beginning, and on one just at the end, it then said It cant write the lead-in and lead-out. I'm getting some TDK's tomorrow.
Another thing, I burned a Sony DVD, the burning process was succesful and at the end it played the disc. I tested it on a dvd player and it worked. Couple of days later I put that same disc in the superdrive and it didn't mount.

Over here (Holland) we use DVD+R, -R are not sold that much. Besides my burner writes DVD+R only. But I figured out what the problem was, it wasn't the Sony DVD's. I cleaned the lens with a CD lens cleaner and it had mostly to do with the compression of a DVD being over 4.4 Gigs.

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