Yo JD-
That was one hella experience that you went through - I would be pissed too!! I went through the similar experience a few years ago with an
eBay purchase of 50 Princo DVD's - what a mess!!
Anyway - I have been experiencing very good burns on the Ritek 8x -R (G05's) with both my 3500's - but better media can be found on sale lately - like the Verbatim 8x -R's @ 100 cakebox for $30 shipped after MIR from Amazon-
To bad it ends tomorrow (1/31)-
Mike