Help - DVD/CD just went out!

This afternoon my DVD drive stopped loading/mounting cds/dvds. It took them in then just moved them in and out of the slot back and fourth.
I did the PRAM and it made it worse, now the DVD/CD's can't even go into the slot.
Any ideas on what's going on?
This came on suddenly with no warning or symptoms.
Thanks in adance for any help.

Well, it was toast. Have know idea why it went bad.
A local Mac repair shop replaced it with an upgraded 8x mce drive with mac drivers for $145 plus $75 labor in 4 hours.
Apple wanted waaay more time and like $700 for their drive. NOT.
So, for a tad over $200 I ended up with a nice upgrade and no hassles. Though it would have been nice if it hadn't just quit after very, very little use during the time I've owned the computer.

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Any ideas on what's going on?
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