Which DVDs burn at 8x in a Dual 1.8 G5?

I have a G5 Dual 1.8 with the Pioneer 107D drive. I've had trouble finding DVD-Rs that burn at full 8x speed.
In the past I have tried:
Memorex 8x DVD-R - burned at 4x
TDK 8x DVD-R - burned at 8x
I've been using a spindle of the TDK 8x discs for the past year and they've worked great. But I ran out. So I went down to Fry's but there were hardly any 8x DVD-Rs, only 16x discs. Having had good luck with the TDK discs, I bought a spindle of 50 TDK 16x discs, but unfortunately they will only burn at 4x speed.
I am doing a year-end backup of about 100 GB of data (a digital image archive) and this is adding a significant amount of time.
Are there any firmware upgrades I can apply that will help? Any specific brands of DVDs to try? It burns at 4x using either the Finder or Toast 6 and I've upgraded Toast to 6.0.9.
Dual 1.8 GHz G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   2 GB RAM, 20" Cinema Display (ADC)

Hi Adam,
We have a different model G5 & SuperDrive (mine is the HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082B (not pioneer)), but as far as burning at 8x goes we've been in the same boat. I tried different media as well TDK, TEON, ... Nothing would burn fast - this even though for many others TDK for instance seems a good brand.
Recently I picked up a set of Imation 8x DVD-R on sale. I didn't have any hopes that they would work at 8x (since they were cheap/on sale) but what do you know: I finally am able to burn at 8x with my superdrive.
So it may be trial and error. The firmware Apple uses for their "superdrives" is really picky and making them far less "super" then we all would want them to be.
See perhaps also this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=591009#591009 where quite a few different models & brands are discussed. Since you have Pioneer drive, the firmware is upgradable to newer versions released by Pioneer. That may help as well. (see linked discussion)
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