A500 slot-loading drive doesn't work

I started using my A500 on the 24th of December 2009. Now my slot-loading drive just spits out every disc i put in it.
I've also noticed that most of my toshiba softwares like disc creator loads with these errors when starting: Unexpected error occurred. Error Code: 320129-49-00000015 and Error Code: 32007C-49-00000015
My Recovery Media Creator also starts with this error: Cannot get Disk Driver Information followed by An unexpected error occurred. Please quit this application and restart it.
(Error Code: 0D00F6-49-00000015) and (Error Code: 0D016E-49-00000015)
could they be related? Any help would do.. thanks

Another thought--do you have an external hard drive? If so. I believe you could mount it on your computer and copy the iLife applications onto it. Then you could mount the external drive on the iBook and drag the applications off of it onto the dock. I think that would work--I did that successfully with Garage band once--I moved it to the external hard drive to free up space on my iBook. At a later time, I was able to move it back. If you don't have an external hard drive, it's worth a few $$ to get one so you can use it for backup.
Also, there is a migration Assistant in the utilities folder which is supposed to be used for moving data from one computer to another. I don't know if it works for applications or not--having only one computer, I have never had occasion to use it. But it might work.
Good luck!

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