CD/DVD drive not working --- HELP

i'm wondering if this is something i can fix myself or that i'll have to bring in....
for no apparent reason, ie no trauma or anything, my CD drive is not working. when i put in a CD (haven't used a DVD in it yet) the computer doesn't read it. it makes a odd noise and then nothing.....i push eject and the computer kinda freezes and i can only get the CD out if i Force Quit iTunes and restart my iBook. any thoughts, greatly appreciated.

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Are your System Preferences set to do what you are expecting when you put a CD into the drive tray?
From Mac Help:
You can determine how you want your computer to respond when you insert a music or picture CD in the optical drive. You can:
Open iTunes or iPhoto to play or view your CD
Open another application of your choice
Run a script to perform a sequence of actions
Ignore the disc if you don't want to do anything right away
Open System Preferences and click CDs & DVDs.
Choose an action from the two pop-up menus for music CDs and picture CDs.
Close the window to save your settings.
To play a music CD automatically when you insert it, you also need to set iTunes to begin playing when you insert a CD. In the General pane of iTunes Preferences, choose Begin Playing from the On CD Insert pop-up menu.
If your System Preferences are set correctly, you can try to do a little hard drive maintenance to see if that will help. This may or may not help (depending upon what the problem is), but it won't hurt to try. Try booting into Safe Mode. This will take awhile longer than a normal startup because it does a file check and repair of the hard disk.
If this works you will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up, try to restart normally, and go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility and repair permissions on the hard drive.
See if a little hard drive maintenance helps things out.
Also, how big is your hard drive and how much space remains available on it? Strange things start to happen when you have less than 5 GB of available hard drive space.

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