What DVD Media to buy?

Hi- I've had problems getting my iMac's drive to burn Data DVDs. I've tried many brands- office max, comp usa, HP, staples, but none seem to work except the $$$ DVDs from the local Apple store, which for some reason, stopped carrying them. The apple genius recommended some memorex brand DVDs and those did not work either.
What brand will work? I get error messages, drive does not recognize the disc, or the drive just spits them out. Tired of wasting cash on stuff that will not work.
Using Toast 6 Titanium
Thanks for any help.
David
System info:
iMac
iMac7,1
Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GHz.
DVD-Write:-R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

I have the exact same iMac you have and have burned to all brands of DVD, from the no-name cheapies to name brands like Sony, Memorex, Verbatim and so forth without any problems. Have burned from Disk Utility, Toast, Disc Blaze and so forth, no problems whatsoever. Haven't found a brand that didn't work, not even the cheap ones i get from the Chinese store around the house.
Might be a problem with your drive, i'd think. Even the $$$$ Apple DVD's are made by some external company, not Apple themselves.

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Actually, using those lightscribe DVD will not harm your system, as long as you only burn the data as you did regularly before and not try to install or create a lightscribe process using your internal optical (it will be greyed out as out of option anyway).
And since you are using macbook, try to use most recent burning software, like toast 8 or burn http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/
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First, welcome to the discussions.
There are so many things that can affect your burning expieriance.
Format,
Speed of the Media,
Software you use,
Burner Installed on your Mac
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CD-R and DVD-R Media are the most widely recognised and used across the board, for both optical drives(Burners) and Players.
SPEED of the Media doesn't seem to be an issue with CD.
Speed, is however with DVD.
The older DVD Burners are only capable of burning at 1X and 2X speed.
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It is very hard to find this slow media. There is a better allternitive.
All CD and DVD Media Manufactures boast of reverse compatibilty.
So again this is not a biggy for CD's but how different for DVD's.
Now a days, just about everything you see is 8X or 16X
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Follow this Media Guide, when buying.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
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Here is another very important link to read throughly.
There is a lot of information to digest, take your time and familuarize your self with terms and definitions.
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