Help - DVD drive eating discs

I'm sick over this. Have seldom used the DVD drive on my iMac 17" FP--so it should be in excellent condition, but today, when trying to play an audio CD, the drive literally ate the disc. It made a ferocious rasping sound. I ejected the media. The bottom had been so severely abraded it looked as if it had been spun on a lathe.
No, this machine is no longer under warranty. I dare not imagine how much Apple would charge to fix it.
How can I repair this? Is it even possible? Might I be better off attaching an external DVD drive via FireWire?
Appreciate hearing from you,
JLS

xfm,
I too have the exact same error messages, but with a UJ-846 drive and Verbatim DVD-R 100-pack spindles.
My drive reads CD/DVDs OK, no problem, but gives problems when I put in a blank disc. I had this problem a few weeks ago with CDs as well, but then opened up the Mac mini and 'cleaned' the Superdrive with some compressed air, and that seem to have sorted the problem then.
Today though, for some reason NOTHING works, I even left the Mac mini 'naked' (without casing) while trying ten times and blowing air in between each time.
I have two batches of Verbatim DVD-R (100packs) bought in two different stores about a month or so apart, and one batch of CD-Rs that are yet another make. All of them with the same problem.
I think this is a hardware problems and it absolutely stinks that it only happens after the Apple warranty has expired. I've done about a 100+ disks on the Mac mini, which in my mind is hardly any at all, so it can't be 'worn out'.
Any ideas, or anyone with leverage at Apple that can kick some a*s
PS. I also have a MacBook Pro C2D with a busted spindle in the SuperDrive (UJ-857D), so me no like SuperDrives very much.

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