DVD Player/Burner

My DVD Player/Burner (internal) will no longer play DVD's including the Tiger DVD (10.4) disk. However, it does play and record CD's. Unfortunately I cannot boot from nor use the Utilities on the Tiger disk.
I cannot get it to except any DVD. It rejects all DVD's before they can boot up. The stats as follows:
Firmware Revision: AADB
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:

hi,
maybe you should look at my thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1541484&tstart=0
i had no cd/dvd access situation for two days after installing the last apple security update(intel).
but now my prob is gone as is written there,
hope you will find your way out soon.
best
brane

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