for me all it was, was that the drive kept switching back to its default of having no region selected, once i realized this, i selected the correct region and tried to burn another dvd and it worked finally.. however now i am perplexed by the fact that the drive defaults to no region every single time after i eject the disc.. does anyone know of anything that i might be able to do to fix that? this is the first time i've ever had anything like that happen with a drive...

best of luck to you boomerangthree, i'm guessing since your drive isn't new what fixed mine isn't an issue with you, however i'd go into device manager to check just in case

(control panel, system, hardware, device manager, then dvd/cd-rom drives, then the specific drive in question, then DVD region)

that's how i figured out how to get there anyway ;p