Superdrive not burning DVD's

Well I tried to burn a DVD on my iMac(Intel) and I use iDVD all the time on my MacBook, but this is the first time that I have used it on my iMac(Intel) and it read a message "Your Macintosh does not have the supported Superdrive" and said that I can't burn a DVD. So I checked what kind of DVD Drive I had via "About This Mac", and it showed me I had the capability and that it was a superdrive not a combo drive. Also I thought all iMac's come standard with DVD burning. Is there something wrong with my Superdrive, or iDVD?????

What are you calling an iDVD?  Is it a disk you formerly burned with iDVD?  Is it just a DVD-R or DVD+R you are trying to burn something on?    Starting July 20, 2011 Apple stopped including iDVD on Macs, and sold it separately as part of iLife '11 through the non-App Store.  Is that what you are missing and expecting to see come up when you enter a blank DVD?    Or are you missing iDVD because you might have an older version of it that used to run in Rosetta, and now doesn't because you are running 10.7 or later?  Or did you insert  blank DVD and the Finder didn't know what to do with it?

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