Swapped hard drive - dvd drive doesn't work now!

hi
Long story but... my logic board in my 1ghz G4 combo drive ibook died so i bought another used ibook (1.33ghz superdrive). The new one had a 60G HD but my old one had a 120G HD so i swapped the bigger one into the newer one. The old 120G HD had 10.3.9 on it while the 60G HD in the newer ibook had 10.5. As expected, the newer ibook started up with the older HD with OS 10.3 with all my stuff on it and everything appeared to be successful until I tried to put in my OS 10.4 DVD to update to a newer OS. It didn't read the DVD so I tried other cd's and DVD's - nothing works? I've been assured that the superdrive in the newer one does (well did!) work. I tried patchburn and that just tells me the dvd drive is supported by osx already.
Is there some way of testing if it's the dvd drive or some sort of driver or firmware that needs updating?
I can't face stripping it down again and swapping the superdrive out for the old combo drive - especially if that is not guaranteed to fix it!
Any ideas?
thanks

One observation on the hard drive cable plugging into the logic board. On my iBookG4, the connector is covered with a piece of yellow tape which seems to be pretty sticky along the edges. When I took my iBook apart to get out the logic board, I noticed that the hard drive connector had become quite firmly attached to the metal shield just from the edges of the tape, and the connector pulled out of the socket when removing the shield. I have heard of the hard drive just becoming disconnected, and I think it's because the tape can stick to the shield and result in the hard drive connector pulling loose from the socket in the logic board. You might check to see if this has happened. A small piece of paper placed on the back of the yellow tape that would keep it from sticking to the shield should prevent this problem. I plan to do that when I put mine back together.
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