Disc drive is rejecting CD's

I have been having trouble with my macbook pro that I bought in April ofo 07 rejecting any kind of cd when I put it in the drive. It spits it right back out since I installed the Leopard OX system last night. Could this new install have something to do with it? I also did the firmware update recently. Before I installed Leopard it would reject a few CD's on occasion but today it is with every cd or dvd i put in.
Any suggestion that I could try would be appreciated.

Mine is having the very same issue. It is a 2008 MBP all wicked up with 4g ram, OSX 10.6+ and recently the drive will always accept the disc but spit it right out. No error messages, noises or indications that suggest where the problem is. It is just like install the disk and someone hit the "eject" button.
On my fourth battery too and that is on the way out too. Starting to wonder how long this computer will last before it breaks me...

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