I just jumped in and bought a lite-on DVD burner, 16x, burns all kinds of media (+R-R RW etc...), worked with Toast out of the box, would work with iApps if i installed the patch but haven't felt the need yet. And it ran me a whopping $58.

Just go buy the stupid thing!

Also, mine is a dual layer burner but the media is crazy expensive, like $5 - $8 per disk! I have a stack of 16x DVD+Rs I've been using and they work great. Should have bought it earlier.