i had this same problem with memorex cd's. I burnt two different ones just to be sure, and neither one will work in my Alpine CDA-7998. Although the same two burnt cd's will work just fine in my playstation 2. The computer won't even read the damn things, that amazed me more than the deck.
TDK's work fine, and my burner is TDK... guess I better just stick with those

Also something i noticed, the top of the TDK cd's have a thick white coat on them... the memorex have an almost transparent silver coating. This may go right back to what was said about the laser bouncing back.
O well..