Hmmm, thanks. I'll try buying some new disks and testing that out. The store I went too only had one brand, "memorex" so I just grabbed them. And yes, Test Mode was failing too.
I managed to get it too burn what I wanted through trial and error but I probably spent almost an hour before it would burn. Then if I tried anything else after that It wouldn't work again. I'm assuming it's as you said and my drive just didn't like the disks I was using.