Lucky you, being free of windows. Yup, overwrote the drivers (since it said I was up-to-date, but I didn't wanna take a chance).

EDIT: The drive is only reading blank single-layer DVDs, not even regular CDs. This seems to mean there's something funky with the way the computer is using the drive... I really don't want to re-format over something like that, but I may have to. I've uninstalled the drive, only to have Windows re-install it and give me the same problem.

EDIT DOS: At the suggestion of someone else, going to see what happens if I load a live Knoppix CD. If that's okay, then windows is effing up. If not, I need a new burner.

Edit 3: Well, it's reading CDs in Knoppix, but not blanks. I'm guessing that's a limitation of the live CD.