DVD Drive BAD - after 10.4.6. & Firmware Updates

After installing 10.4.6, then doing the Firmware Update 1.0 for the MacBook Pro I now have an extremely slow DVD drive.
I'm simply putting in CD/DVDs (Adobe, Macromedia, my own, anything...) and they takes ages to mount (3-4 minutes) or do not mount at all with the error saying the discs are unreadable by this system.
Everything was fine before, as I was installing applications fine...

Hi!
Good for you! Great.
Didn't work for me. My Superdrive doesn't read original CD-ROMS. No problems with DVDs and CD-R.
Since I migrated directly from my Intel iMac I didn't use any original CD since I reveived my MacBook Pro in February. Hope they'll send me an exchange. I can't send in the machine for days and/or weeks.
hmpf
Some kind of upset.
Greetings
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