Unable to burn DVD-R, CD-Rs burn fine

Hello,
Hoping someone can help me here. I'm trying to burn some files to dvd-r, and getting a message "Burning the disc failed because communication to the disc drive failed. (Error code 0x80020022)". I've tried different brands of DVD-R (Sony being the latest), tried the suggestion to create another user account and try burning under that (same error message), tried burning via toast (similar error message). I'm at my wits end.
The problem started several weeks ago, but I did no update/etc. that I can think of that would affect this.
Does anyone have any idea what may be going on?

Hi James, It's still possible another brand of Media would work, (Sony is the worst one for me),...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=884305
But the CD & DVD parts of the Drive use different Lasers, circuits, & voltages, so it is possible for just one to go out.

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