Cannot read CDs

Hi everyone,
Since the last security update and quicktime update (info below)-- which I ran two days ago-- I am no longer able to read many of my archive DVDs-- or they access data very slowly. They all worked fine just days ago.
Any idea why this would happen or what I can do to remedy?
Thanks,
Amy
PS-- does Apple staff monitor the discussions or should I also send this query to them directly?
2008-02-13 15:31:35 -0500: Installed "QuickTime" (7.4.1)
2008-02-13 15:35:04 -0500: Installed "Security Update 2008-001 (Universal)" (1.0)

Have you tried reading the disc in other CD-ROM drives? I would suspect that the problem lies in the drive itself rather than being something at the system level that prevents the disc from being recognized. And sometimes it can take multiple inserts of a disc to be recognized with certain disc/drive combinations; or the drive may just not "like" the disc media type.
If you can get the disc reading in a different drive, copy the files off the disc and move them back to the Mac - either across a network, or burn a conventional disc with them on it.
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