10.6 broke my intern DVD/CD Drive in Macbook Pro

Hello,
Today I installed SnowLeopard Retail Version on a third intern partition of my Titanum MacBook Pro (intel) with an intern SAMSUNG HM250JI CD/DVD Drive. (On the first partition i have installed and in perfect use OS 10.4.11 for a while now, and the second is a data partition for me).
Since after the installation and the Software Actualisation to 10.6.1 today evening, my Mac ejects all CD's and DVD's and does not accept any one anymore. (only with my extern CD-Writer i'm still able, to read CD's).
The most crazyest thing is, that this behaviour isn't only when i started from 10.6.1, no, it also happens when i start from my long stable 10.4.11!
I tried everything: 1. Repairing the permissions (on both systems), 2. Resetting PR-Ram, 3. Tryed out a new User...
nothing helps. The facts tells me, it must definitively had something like a firmware-update with 10.6 or 10.6.1, that does not work. (Explains, why it does not work on 10.4.11 anymore too)
My Mac is not so old, that i could buy just quick a new one. Localisation is Swiss/German
Do you guys have an update or a fix for this? Have to do some important work and would like to burn backup-DVD's today evening.
Cheers,
Tazmandevil
MacBook Pro, 2.16 Ghz Dual Core Duo, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, 10.4.11 & 10.6.1, Localisation: Swiss/German

Hello,
It's 02:17 o'clock now here, i've backuped my files on my friends computer. And in between I've found out, that apple is investigating the SUPERDRIVE-Problem with the MATSUSHTA-Drive since the 14.September 2009 now, after the 10.6 came out.
Then I've found several SUPERDRIVE Firmwareupdates on Apples own websites, dated since then. They also tryed to avoid noise (that i never had) with this drive in between. But these FU's only runs on System 10.5. (I only have 10.4 and since 'yesterday' 10.6). I've also read on several places, that there can also be a problem, that the Firmwareupdate from the install-DVD can fail, and one then should be able to correct this, by removing the FU inside the Account/Startup Items. But there is nothing on my system)
Now, if there really should be a FU, that only runs on System 10.5, and I only have 10.4 and 10.6 (which caused this problem, 'yesterday evening')... I'm wonder, why this Update only runs on 10.5. Isn't there a version that runs on 10.4 or 10.6 ? U can't really expect me to buy 10.5 now, just for having a running Firmwareupdate-Environment.
How is the progress with the "Investigations" or are they finished now? If so, can you help me to get a Firmwareupdate for the Superdrive on my machine, without a 10.5?
Or do you know a way back to my old firmware, that worked? (don't ask me now, which one it was, the one with 10.4.11, so, probably older than Boot-ROM-Version: MBP12.0061.B03 and SMC Version: 1.5f10?)
(actually i have access to an old powerbook Superdrive (MATSUSHTA too)... would it help, if I would replace the MacBook Pro's SD by this older one? Would the Firmware be on this drives hardware and would get useless again, when i would try to install 10.6 on this machine? I can reject 10.6. Thats no problem. I like 10.4.11 what is stable. But I need to know if there's another solution or not.
Cheers,
Tazmandevil
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