DVD Burning Problem

[RussianMissile1]

wow havent been here in a long while... i see someone still has my f@h thingy going since i still see its not grey on the tracking website.

anyway to the point:

i cant record onto dvd-r disks on either of the two dvd burners i own, both support dvd-r, ive tried different branded media, different programs for burning, nothing seems to be wrong with either computers or the drives themselves.

each dvd-r disk does have what seems to be a small patch of written data on it, staight out of the box... or spindle and this is what i think is causing the problems... but how do i get around it?

i can take a picture if it will help

[RussianMissile1]

at about where the blue arrow is pointing is the thin ring of what appears to be recorded data.
this appears on every single one of the dvd-r discs that i have (including those that have never seen the inside of a dvd drive)

[RussianMissile1]

hmm just was poking around inside roxio 8 i think it is and i got it to burn finally. no clue what i did different though.

[cloasters]

Yaay you fixed it, good news. It's good to see you on the board, Merry Christmas RussianMissile1!

[Samuknow]

Holy crap....

So, is it all good?