It should be just fine. Even if the Lite-On is "best", it's not like the others suck or something.
I got one too, BB here had 5 on the shelf, and only one was all serial numbers, and I got it - and it's a Lite-On, says so on top. Has 52x24x52 in gray on the lower right corner, I'm kind of happy it doesn't say Verbatim across it in big red letters like it shos on the box (in fact, i think the picture on the box had that photoshopped onto it).
It was wild, over 5 drives there were 3 completely different methods for writing the serial numbers. I wonder how many places these things came from? But it worked, the one with NO letters was a Lite-On.
If you're not picky about such things, there's also a 48x free-after-rebate at OfficeMax. The local OM STILL has stock, I'm amazed.