Cube CD-RW drive can't read CD-Rs

I have a Cube that has an Apple-shipped CD-RW drive, but it can't read the discs it burns. It creates discs fine and those discs can be read in other computers fine. But it won't read CD-Rs, either burnt from Cube or other computers.
Is my drive dying? Any ideas? Thanks.
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Hi, J. -
You might try using a standard audio CD cleaning disk - sometimes a dusty lens can cause reading (or writing) issues.

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