DVD SUPER DRIVES THAT ARE COMPATIBLE...

I have a g5 1.8 dp (8 slots)
running 10.3.9
W/ I-Life 5.0.1
My Pioneer 106D can't read dvds but will burn them.
I called customer service for a list of compatable superdrives that would work with I-life right out of the box and 10 minutes into the conversation I was told I had to go to the apple store because they aren't allowed to give out info on 3rd party companies.I go to the Apple store and I felt just because I didn't want to pay them $200 plus to replace and install(hard as a lightbulb) they wouldn't give me a list of compatible drives either. WHAT ELSE DOES A PAYING CUSTOMER HAVE TO DO TO GET A COMPATIBLE DRIVE W/O RUNNING IN CIRCLES? Anyways, they only said they'd replace it with the exact model. I told them I would want a faster drive since I'm paying for a replacement. They told me they can do that. So I then asked them what brand and model they'd use cause I wanted to buy it elsewhere, where it's cheaper. They said they didn't know what make or model is compatable???? That's pretty low if you asked me.
Sorry for the rant, I'm p'd off right now. Say what ya will about pc but had I had one this would have been simple as 123.
So my question is, can anyone tell me about some drives that are compatible?
Ones that work with I-life right out the box? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
hhstjr     dhsjndy

If you (or anyone else) is still following this thread, I have the same configuration, and experienced the same problems. After many rants on this discussion group, I finally broke down and tried using a DVD lens cleaner - NOT A CD CLEANER! Guess what, my drive now reads everything it wouldn't read before - including those DVD's I burned with iDVD, plus all the retail DVD movies I thought it would never read. I wonder if the "defect" is that the drives were installed with dirt on the DVD lenses???
Before you give up completely and allow those so-called Genius' at the Apple Store to rip you off for a couple hundred dollars, get a DVD lens cleaner disk and try it.
Good Luck!
G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   Pioneer 106D Superdrive

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