Why won't my new Superdrive burn either CD's or DVD's to my new Macbook Pro Retina?

My Superdrive can only read CD's. It cannot burn either CD's or DVD's as the options are greyed out.
It asks me to erase them but then states they cannot be erased.
I have tried 3 different brands of CD's/DVD's with no success.
I have installed all updates. I am running Mountain Lion OSX.
Frustrated!

If you have enough power for the superdrive and the superdrive is OK, you can tell the MBP to handle the superdrive as an internal superdrive by changing a system file. OSX (Mountain) Lion.
You do that with the free Oxed binary editor (but you can also use the Textedit App).
Make a backup copy of the following file
/System/Library/Frameworks/DVDPlayback.framework/Versions/A/DVDPlayback
Put it in a safe place.
Make another copy and edit that one as follows with "find/replace":
find/replace all "internal" (without the quotes) to "external".
Save.
Move the file to where you originally copied it, and thus replacing the original file with the changed one.
For all eventuality you still have the backup of the original file.
You may have to make this change again after an update of the OS.

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