10.6.6 killed my dvd

Please help. I installed 10.6.6 tonight on a macbook pro (2.33) and my dvd stopped working. Insert disk, a few sounds, disk is spit back out. It worked fine last night with 10.6.5. What do you think are my options?

I'm afraid, the same happened to me here since the upgrade. On a Macmini.
WOW!
Funny, since the upgrade from 10.6.5. to 10.6.6. I too have problems with a formerly more or less perfect system.
Not my finder is freezing but I cannot read or write CD-RWs anymore and I've just discovered a data DVD which the MacMini will not read.
This was NOT the case before the update and it is not a problem with the CD's or DVD's as they can be read via an external drive.
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