Won't Recognize Blank CD's

I'm having a problem with my G4 not recognizing blank CD's. When I insert a blank disk it just spits it back out a few seconds later. However, it will read a burned CD just fine. I've looked through the system prefrences and changed the "when you insert a blank cd" options to "open a finder folder" and it didn't help. Any suggestions?

Here's a link to some info on that drive:
http://www.welovemacs.com/lfd211a.html
It's the original drive for that machine, meaning it's at least 6
years old. My guess is that it has just died. The symptom is one
consistent with that, as is the age of the drive. A replacement will
run you about $40 and will burn and read much faster. The usual
recommendations are to check New Egg if you want a wide variety
of drives to choose from :
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=5&name=CD-DVD-Burners
or Other World Computing if you just want something you are sure will work
with your machine:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/optical-drives/superdrives/
The Pioneer 112 is widely recommended in this forum and should work
in your G4, although not quite at the max speeds the drive is capable of.
Still, much faster than what you have. If you need any installation help there
are a number of tutorials (some on the OWC site) or you can post for help.
mac pro, dual 1.25 g4 - Pioneer 111d, LG H10, Plextor 716UF, LG 4163,Pioneer 112 Mac OS X (10.4.10) dell 9200, dell xps 400 Benq 1650, Plextor Premium

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