Dvd drive problems...plz help

ok so ive got a mac mini and i reformatted the main hardrive but first i backed all my files up.....then once i had installed tiger it wouldnt boot up it just stayed on the bott screen...so i reformatted it again...now it boots but the dvd drive is so **** slow......it says its gonna take 27 hours to copy 2.7gb from my dvd+rw..anyonce know what's wrong with it..before it was alot faster and now it just slows right down...also while im copying it the cpu and memory are maxed out...any help is excellent and highly apreciated....thx

"What kind of Mini is it (Intel or PowerPC) ?"
"Apart from Tiger, what did you install on it ?"
its a power pc.......ummm apart from tiger i put norton anti virus, pocket tanks, microsoft office 2004 for mac, limewire pro, norton personal firewall, a few dvd's...took about 40 min to copy to harddrive each......over 7 gp.....no this wasnt illegal so dont tell me it was.....all my music..i know none of these things have viruses on them because i scan them with about 3 different virus scanners before i use them/unarchive them...all of the macromedia programs basicly....fireworks,dreamweavor,flash pro.....adobe photoshop....no i did not illegally pirate this stuff....im a student and im taking a **** of all lot of computer crap....i just dont know what the ****'s wrong with my dvd drive... and i really need it fixed as im a student and have school ever day of the week.....

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