Erratic behaviour by internal DVD-writer (not recognising discs)

Hi,
Earlier today I went to burn a 2 small Word files to a blank CD-RW, and ever since my iMac's internal DVD/CD-writer has been playing up.
When it went to burn the disc, it got stuck in the preparing phase (with the moving diagonal slashes progress bar), after a long while of this I tried to cancel the burn. Unfortunately the system wouldn't respond to the cancel button being clicked so I had to Force Quit the Finder.
Following this I was then unable to get the system to eject the disc so that I could try again. Eventually resetting the computer seemed to solve this. But ever since then the computer has been behaving erratically, including;
- not recognising (and so ejecting) previously recognised burnt CD-RWs,
- not recognising the original blank CD-RW,
- not recognising other blank CD-RWs,
- rejecting multiple blank CD-RWs in a row as faulty discs,
- getting stuck in the burning process preparations.. again! (when it did for once actually recognise a blank disc),
- and not recognising multiple movie DVDs.
I did in the end get it recognise some movie DVDs again in the end, but aside from that it's still misbehaving.
I've reset the machine multiple time, both due to problem, and simply to try to see if that'll fix it. I've also zapped the PRAM, checked the System Profiler to ensure the drive is fully recognised by the machine/OS, I've also tried leaving the machine to cool for 10 minutes, and checked the CD and DVD preferences panel. I don't have a Drive cleaner disc yet, but then the shops are closed now so I wouldn't be able to get one till tomorrow.
Until today it's worked hitch free (aside from rejecting a few particular 'Movie DVDs' (of the correct region) for no apparent reason). I've previously been able to burn all sorts of files on to DVD-Rs, DVD-RWs, CD-Rs and CD-RWs, without a problem. And it's hapily read all sort of different discs with different media on them.
Thanks
Jessika

I would just get it repaired.

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