Failing optical drive?

Right, the latest and final piece of hardware (only thing thats original left) on my heap of junk macbook pro to start playing up is the optical drive.....i keep having issues where its spitting out certain discs, yet they read fine when you put them in a computer with a normal tray drive?
One piece of software i have it wont read the disc at all.
I bought the snow leopard upgrade today and it took me 4 attempts to insert the disc before it finally decided it wanted to load it, and that was a brand new disc.
Most dvds and discs its fine with, just a few, and seemingly all the important ones.
I had to replace the HDD last week as that had failed, and someone suggested that maybe the computer is very picky about what HDD it will be fully compatible with?! I think that rubbish personally though as the disc loads as it should when i connet an external DVD drive to the computer??
Is it time for a new optical drive? And if so where can i buy one?
Andy

Hey I had a 2008 MacBook Pro start doing this a little while ago. I went to staples to look for a cleaning disc and the person who helped me mentioned that the cleaning discs tend to get stuck in the slot driven drives... So I ended up googling other ways to clean it and I found that putting one of those microfiber cleaning cloths around an old credit card and sticking it in the drive, slidding it back and forth in order to try to clean the laser in there helps. Now it didn't fix the problem completely, it will now read most CD's and some DVD's which was a massive improvement from before. Other than that you could buy a new drive from Expercom or an Apple store but it will cost you a good amount of money...

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Just five hours ago the same thing happened except it took over 30 boots to load the OS. Single, verbose and normal boots, NVRAM and SMC resets lead to gray screens. Safe boots lead to bright blue screens with and without lines (see pictures). Finally loaded on a normal boot.
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L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
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gMux Version: 1.9.24
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.573
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Type:    GPU
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x0126
Revision ID: 0x0009
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Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
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Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Built-In: Yes
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Manufacturer: DP
Device Name: bq20z451
Pack Lot Code:    0000
PCB Lot Code: 0000
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Hardware Revision: 0001
Cell Revision:    1102
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Charge Remaining (mAh): 4583
Fully Charged:    No
Charging: Yes
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 7765
Health Information:
Cycle Count: 276
Condition: Normal
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA):    -4487
Voltage (mV): 11306
System Power Settings:
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Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):    15
Wake on AC Change: No
Wake on Clamshell Open: Yes
Wake on LAN: No
Current Power Source: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: No
GPUSwitch: 2
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Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):    5
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Wake on Clamshell Open: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: No
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Reduce Brightness: Yes
Hardware Configuration:
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AC Charger Information:
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ID:    0x0100
Wattage (W): 85
Revision: 0x0000
Family: 0x0085
Serial Number:    0x007ad8c5
Charging: Yes
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Previous operating system: 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard); Installed 4/4/11
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