Disc won't insert into Superdrive

I noticed recently that when trying to put a disc into my macbook, it was very hard to insert the disc. It still went in, but took a significant amount of force. Once it get in far enough, the drive started making noise and trying to accept the disc, however it would never actually go in. I took it to the genius bar and was told I needed a new drive, but it was out of warranty. I replaced the drive myself with the exact same model drive (HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GSA-S10N) with the guide at iFixIt.com, and the install went smoothly. However when I started the macbook up again, it has the exact same problem as the old drive. This leads me to believe it isn't the drive, but what else could it be? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Note the problem may be one of a disc being put in that didn't meet standards for slot loading drives as mentioned in this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58641
If you only put in spec non-labelled self made discs or commercial discs that are not copy-protected that are also spec, and have this problem, yes, call AppleCare:
http://www.apple.com/contact/phone_contacts.html

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http://www.apple.com/contact/phone_contacts.html

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