DVD-R Drive not reading anything

I went to burn a DVD, and it gave me an unspecified error.
Now I can't get any disc to read. I can eject and load, and nothing.
I can't seem to boot to Mac Install either (Holding down C when rebooting)
Thoughts?

Ann S.,
I'm having problems similar to those of others with the PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D [A606]. In my case, I can't read TDK DVD+R disks I burned on same burner and which for a long time had no problem reading. I'm going to try your earlier suggestion of doing an "archive & install" from the OS X Tiger install disk, as you described, and have a couple questions:
1) With QuickTime 7.4.1 now the current version, after I download to the desktop the OS X 4.11 combo update, after unchecking the 7.3 update, and doing the permission repairs at each step, etc., should I then do a separate update directly via the System Prefs Software Update to update QuickTime all the way to 7.4.1, which is what I'm running now?
2) I would also really appreciate any further wisdom you can offer regarding the following additional information — thanks in advance:
In October'07, I bought Toast Titanium 8 and thought my problem was solved (I was now once again able to read the TDK DVD+R's mentioned above with no problems after first discovering problems reading them in late '06). Then, this past January ('08) I purchased ReadDVD! to solve a problem I was having reading a UDF-formatted CD that had been burned on another machine. It may (or not) be coincidental, but within a couple weeks after installing ReadDVD!, the next time I tried to mount one of the aforementioned TDK disks — no luck. I haven't been able to read them since. Furthermore, I was then unable to confirm a successful uninstall of ReadDVD! (I DO NOT recommend this product) After contacting the manufacturer, I was told that as long as I had double-clicked the uninstall icon, it was successfully uninstalled, even though there was no apparent removal taking place at all, no install or uninstall logs to check, nothing showing up in the trash, right-clicking the uninstall icon showed it was only an alias with no path to the actual uninstaller, etc. SO, I don't have any idea what actually caused the primary problem to reappear — was it QuickTime 7.3, ReadDVD!, or something different still. I've tried reinstalling Toast 8, hoping it would overwrite whatever defaults ReadDVD! might have created. No luck. Again, any further advice this info might elicit would be much appreciated. Thanks, again.

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