CD Drive ejecting ALL CDs and DVDs.

Hi everyone,
As usual I am writing this on behalf of my friend that just got a White 1.83 week 29 MacBook. He was using it all day today, importing CD's into iTunes. The CD drive will no longer accept any CDs. When you put them in, it pulls them in by itself, starts to read them, and then spits them right back out. He has tried numerous different CDs and DVDs to no avail. They all get spit out. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
-MRCUR

From personal experience and reading through the forums...most people seem to be having this problem with the superdrives not the combo drives. This makes your case a little more unique...but probably still the same issue.
It seems that the manufacturer of the combo and superdrives made some low quality devices. There are literally hundreds of postings in this discussion group about this problem.
I Had my macbook for all of 24 hours when the superdrive started doing this same thing. Apple was quick with the repair though. I sent it in Friday and I am getting it back today. i will let you know if it is fixed when I get home tonight. It seems that a lot of people in these forums have sent their macbooks in more than once for their superdrives.
For $1400.00...you'd think that you'd have a reliable system, you know?
-john

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