Unable to Burn a DVD

I am unable to select any files to burn. I am choosing Disk Utility when inserting a blank DVD. A Disk Utility window opens and shows three drives. One of them is the optical drive. If I click on the "Burn" button, the Select Image to Burn window opens but no files can be selected, they are grey'd out and the "Burn" button on the lower right hand corner is grey too and never becomes selectable.
I am the only user and my account is admin. I've tried two different media but that doesn't seem to be where the root cause is. What's going on? I thought Apple computers were intuitive, I can't believe I'm that stupid. I've searched the Help Viewer but the text does not match what I see when I insert the blank disk. It says that once you insert the media and you've chosen the app. you want to burn with, a disc icon should appear on your desktop. I never see this icon. It then says to double click on it, which should open a window and then drag your files to be burnt to this window. Seems pretty straight forward to me but that's simply not what I'm seeing.
Any help is much appreciated.

OK to burn CD - does not recognize blank dvds -
error msg
I used to be able to record dvd's - what Happened??
I've aready reset the SMU
these are the specs for disc burning:
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857:
Firmware Revision: HAE4
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: No

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