DVD drive problems after 10.4.7 updae

I successfully completed a 10.4.7 update after a nuke & repave of the internal hard disk. At the moment the only applications on my machine are Mac OS 10.4.7 and the iLife suite.
Since I installed 10.4.7 I'm having a problem with the internal DVD drive (PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D Rev. A612) not working properly. On the first boot with the new OS the drive wasn't listed in System Profiler. I rebooted and now the drive is listed, but when I put in a DVD I get the tik-tik noise of the drive searching. Sometimes (maybe 1 in 5 attempts) it does detect the disk and mount it. Any ideas?

There's a cludgy solution to getting access to the disks which I'm finding works sometimes.
I created a new folder, e.g. "dvd" in my "Documents"
Inserted a DVD and clicked to ignore the fact that the Mac wouldn't read it.
Then using Terminal I mounted /dev/disk1, using the "dvd" folder as the mounting node:
"/sbin/mount_cd9660 /dev/disk1 ./dvd" when I was in "Documents"
Then I could get into the folder. I've found that the "mount" command wouldn't do it, and neither did "mount -t iso9660", but mount_cd9660 seams OK.
Other things to note:
If you want to watch a movie, you can similarly "ignore" the error message when you insert the disk, and then go to the File->Open Disk menu in VLC.
But Apple needs to get this lot sorter!

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