Superdrive won't load blanks but plays DVD DL with lectures

The Superdrive in my MacBookPro3,1 will automatically mount and play a commercially recorded, double layer DVD (containing lectures).
But it will not mount a commercially-recorded stereo music CD or blank disks formatted as CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-R. They will spin up to low rpm and the head can be heard searching, but then they spin down. That will repeat two time (perhaps three), then the drive spins down and rejects the disk automatically.
What would cause that and how can it be fixed?
FYI: The optical drive is a Matshita DVD-R UJ-857R with Firmware Revision HR01

Is it more fussy than the superdrive in my iMac or my MacBook? They don't have the same problems.
Good question. That's kinda the problem with "fussy": you never know when it has crossed into defective.
If I had a full height tray-loading external drive that was as fussy as my superdrive, I would call it defective. But when they squeeze everything into a third-height slot-loader, then the same behavior apparently becomes "fussy".
You might check your three superdrives with System Profiler and see if they are the same model and firmware. Somehow I doubt it.
Your mini's superdrive may well have crossed from fussy to defective. Let the store have a look at it.

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