Superdrive reads ok but won't succesfully write

Hello.
I have an imac PowerPC G5. I've burned many many CD's & DVD's over the 2 years I've owed this imac. Lately, many of the CD's & DVD's I burn on my imac are successfully burned but when played back on my imac or stand alone dvd/cd player there are skips, audio fades out, freezes up, etc.
I have a Superdrive (Pioneer DVR-K04F) which I used for read/write. Ripping DVD's or CD's onto my HD using this drive seems to work without problem. I can also play store bought DVD's or CD's or older DVD-r's/CD-r's using this same drive and everything works fine.
In order to remedy, I purchased a DVD lens cleaner with the tiny brushes and have since run the cleaning process 10+ times.
So, my question is: When the drive seems to play store bought discs fine and seems to rip store bought discs fine, but has trouble burning discs...what might be the problem? I'm guessing there are separate lenses for reading and writing (apologies for my lack of knowledge on how these things work)? So perhaps, the writing side of the superdrive is failing? Is this foreshadowing that the reading side will go soon too? Any suggestions on how to remedy?
Thanks very much for reading!
BB

I've been having issues with my Superdrive too. DVDs write ok, but burning CDs is a crapshoot. Audio CDs sometimes skip or have dropouts towards the end (which means the issues are at the outer edges of the CD, the opposite of a vinyl record).
Burning at less than 24x speed seems to help. I think the cheap CompUSA CD media I'm using is to blame. I need to stick with a better brand name. It's worth the expense. Cheap isn't cheap when you're burning nothing but coasters.
So that's my suggestion. Try a different brand, and burn at a slower speed.

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