Superdrive only plays commercial DVDs

I have a G4 ibook and an emac both with Superdrives that recently only recognize commercial DVDs. When inserting a blank DVD or a homemade DVD the drives try to read the disc, but invariably eject them. The homemade discs will play fine on my Intel imac and my G4 imac running 10.4.11. It seems to me that this problem started after updating to 10.5.6.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Daniel Carolin wrote:
Actually, the superdrive in the ibook has just been replaced. It had a combo drive before until the eject mechanism went kaflooey. I'm hald wondering if it just shouldn't have a superdrive in it at all. Perhaps installing it violated some secret law of the nature of my particular ibook.
Not really But you may have gotten a flaky drive. Some "new" drives are actually refurbished, and may have not been completely rebuilt.
You might consider an external drive such as the LaCie as a backup. I use it on my MBPs when making multiple DVDs since the internal one gets quite hot after burning a few in a row.
Also after installing new hardware, a PRAM reset is always called for.
Just in case it was not done, do it now
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
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