CD/DVD drive no longer accepts media after Tiger

I have a PowerBook G4 17" (about 6 mos old) that no longer takes a CD or DVD after upgrading to TIger (10.4.2). The drive does not even appear on the System Profiler. The last CD that it took was the Tiger installer CD. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sylvia Lin

ok, let me close this one. Repairing permissions fixed the problem.

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