Booted the ISOs in VirtualBox and they work fine. Since original post have also tried imgburn and still no luck.

Sorry no screen shots, but tried the benchmark, scored 16x and 24x. I did resort to burning the media at 8x a while back, just in case the media wasn't great. Tested the media:


General Information
Drive: DVDRW DRW-6S160H
Firmware: CSG4
Disc: Data CD (Sony)
Selected speed: Maximum
C1 errors
Maximum: 17
Average: 0.16
Total: 556
C2 errors
Maximum: 0
Average: 0.00
Total: 0
Jitter: n/a
Scanning Statistics
Elapsed time: 2:04
Number of samples: 3502
Average scanning interval: 1.01 sec
Glitches removed: 0

It's 2AM here in Hawaii, I gotta hit the sack and tackle this in the morning...