Superdrive only recognized as Combo drive

I installed an HP 300n DVD+RW drive in my Power Mac G4, running Mac OS 10.5.6. Reading CDs/DVDs works fine as well as burning CDs. Somehow, part of OS X is only recognizing it as a Combo drive. System profiler recognizes it as a fully compatible Superdrive as seen in this picture: http://i42.tinypic.com/wa6pg2.png
The rest of the system thinks it is a combo drive as seen here: http://i40.tinypic.com/f359uu.png
When I insert a DVD-R, nothing happens. The Finder presents no dialog, it does not show up on the desktop, and Disk Utility does not realize that anything was inserted. Nothing happens differently than if I closed the drive with no disc in.
Why is it only working as a combo drive?
EDIT: Is it possible that the drive is +R only?
Message was edited by: Hippy Dippy Hippo

I noticed that all the Superdrive macs I have contain DVD+/-RW drives. I do not think any macs were shipped with DVD+RW drives ever. Therefore, the eject menu is confused and calls it a Combo drive. Different companies have different definitions of "combo" drives. The Compaq I pulled this from actually called it a Combo drive on the sticker on the front of the PC, despite having the ability to burn both DVD+RW and CD-RW discs. I think that the fact that it was DVD+RW drive confused the mac into thinking it was a "Combo" drive, though just in that eject menu.
The real problem was that I was trying DVD-R discs when I should have been using DVD+R. As long as I remember to use DVD+R rather than -R, then all will be well.

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