DVD Drive crashes my computer

I seem to have a problem with my dvd drive. A lot of the time when I put in a dvd movie, I will get a kernal panic (semi-transparent black screen forcing me to reboot) when it tries to read the dvd, forcing me to reboot. I have also had a few problems in the middle of burning dvd's and then get a kernal panic there too. I never get kernal panics at any other time. Do you think my ram is faulty? How do I test the ram? What else can I do?

Well, thar she blows.
I just dropped my MacBook off at an Apple Store for a likely logic board replacement, airport card replacement, and bottom case replacement. Gonna get shipped off to the bozo's in TN most likely (*heavy sigh*).
I'll report what happens when the computer comes back.
The good news is that as I soon as I opened the computer and launched DVD Player, it KPed like a champ for the Genius.
Remind me why we like Apple products so much?
No, I know, they are slick, and work well, and nothing is perfect. Expecting anything to be flawless is just silly. It's just that 4 of the last 4 Mac laptops I've had have had some failure within the first 6 months. Good that it's within 1 year, but 100% failure rate isn't so good. But I keep coming back. Who's laughing?
My Wallstreet kicked ***. And the 12" G4 was bad-***, too. The Wallstreet never had an issue (that wasn't user caused...).
Good luck everyone. I'll report back.
More sigh.
(MacBook Air is kinda cool. It is thin, so maybe it's small in the dimensions that matter most. I mean, if you're using a briefcase, thinness is going to be the most noticeable dimension, right? They don't make briefcases that are smaller widthxlength than a piece of paper. So what good is a 9"x7" laptop that's an inch thick? Just musing...)

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