Disk drive wont accept Disk

Hi, whenever I insert a disk into my disk drive on my macbook pro it spits it right back out. It doesn't matter if its a DVD or CD. Could this be a driver problem? I dont think anything is physically wrong.
Thank you for your help

Hi,
Similar discussion here (http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?4,2868684). If the cleaning doesn't work, might heed the last post of that forum and take it to Apple store in case the optical drive is going bad.

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