Help! Superdrive won't recognize ANYTHING after a forced shutdown!?

I was watching a dvd, and it froze up about 25 minutes in and the little rainbow wheel was up for about 10 minutes and I was in full screen so I couldnt do anything. So, I held in the button and forced it to shut off (with the dvd in). Now after that I started it back up only to find it wouldnt recognize the dvd, and just spat it back out after about 5 seconds or so (I couldn't hear it reading anything at all). I tried multiple times, 2 other dvds and a burnt music cd, it won't read anything anymore...and I just burned a cd earlier today and everything was working fine and I also had to put other cd's in that worked fine prior to this shutdown....Can someone please help?? Is there a disk reset or anything??? Any help is greatly appreciated! I also restarted and tried, shutdown and let it sit for the night and still nothing....please help!

That doesnt work I verified and repaired permissions via disk utility, but that did absolutely nothing. It is still taking in the disk, and I can hear a faint beep about 2 times and it spits this disk out after about 5 seconds. I cannot put anything in the drive, it just spits it out after a couple seconds. Everthing worked fine before this one thing happened....Is there anything I can do?

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