Help with my optical drive

Hello, today I was converting some cd's for a podcast. After I added three of them (they were all clean), the cd's would go in, I would hear some clicking sounds, then they would eject. So, I tried a DVD, it did the same thing. Then, a brand new cd...again, same problem. Then a blank cd, same problem.
Can someone help? I've had this Macbook about two months. Everything else works perfect.
Should I take it to my local Apple store?

For the burn errors you might want to try resetting your PRAM and SMC controller (this fixed an issue I once had), but the scratching of the disk suggests a physical problem with the drive itself.
I don't know how confident you are, but I replaced a DVD drive in a powerbook and it was relatively straightforward. A compatible drive should be fairly cheap, even second hand. If not get a quote from an apple certified engineer and see if that's more than buying an external drive. I have a full size DVD drive in a firewire enclosure which burns DVDs at 22x and rarely use the shipping drive for anything but watching DVDs.

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