After installing lion my superdrive does not read dvds

After the genious bar  installed lion my superdrive does not read dvds. I put in the dvds and the drive churns for a bout 3 minutes and the spits out the dvds full of scratches.
I have read online that other people have had similar problems with lion.
Is there fix for this? or does anyone know if apple care covers this?

Zap the PRAM and Reset the SMC, then try loading a DVD again.

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