Cd drive malfunction

Hi, my iBook G4 is troubling me. A few weeks ago the internal hard drive "crashed" but rebooting still has been possible by means of booting with command-c and the Tiger install disk inserted to fix the problem at each startup with disk first aid. Yesterday command-c booting wasn't possible any more because of a kernel panic, so I decided to replace the internal hard drive that to my understanding caused the kernel-panic. After reassembling I tried to start my iBook with command-c to format the new drive a to do a fresh tiger install, but the install dvd wasn't recognized. The internal dvd drive spins up for a short moment but that's it. Booting into fire-wire mode didn't work nor does command-s or command-v booting. So I decided to try a open firmware boot and boot the system from an external fire-wire-drive. Work's out fine, so the keyboard is ok as is my iBook in general. But a system check showed the the internal dvd drive wasn't at all recognized?! I reopened my iBook but the dvd-drive connector seems properly connected. Who can help?
Yours,
Frank

addendum: I recently disconnetcted the internal dvd-drive and was able to boot into fire-wire mode and to install tiger from another Mac on my iBook. I also disconnected the (fresh) internal hard drive to see if its a master-slave-conflict, but the internal dvd-drive wasn't detected either.
Frank

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