Cannot read discs, help please?

Hi, any suggestions would be wonderful, but this is the current case:
I have an iMac that I purchased back in 2007. Literally, I just installed snow leopard a week ago, and the next time I inserted a disc into my drive - the disc got stuck. And this was very bad of me, but I took a card and gently jimmied the disc till it came out. I have never had this problem till I installed snow leopard onto it. So now whenever I put a disc in - it doesn't mount, and I hear the drives trying to read the disc, but it only spits out the disc after thirty seconds or so. Also, I have tried many different discs, and it is all the same case. They are all spit out. Help please? Should I just take it into the Apple Store?

While you might have damaged the drive, but because of how they are vertically mounted in the iMac and maybe some heat related issue, the drive could've simply just failed. Its time has come.
Tthe internal optical drives in the aluminum style iMacs because of there mounting position seem to be prone to failure.
Your AppleCare has long since expired.
You have two options. You can pay to have the drive removed and replaced with a new internal drive and risk another premature failure. At least your iMac will have a brand new internal optical drive.
OR forget about the internal drive and look for and purchase an external third party optical drive that will be much better built and last longer and you can use this drive again when and if you decide to upgrade to a newer Mac or iMac model.
Another note. If you decide to have an Apple tech replace the internal optical drive, you might ask if possible, how much to install a larger hard drive into this iMac since they have to tear down the entire iMac anyhow.
Good Luck on whichever decision you choose

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