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The drive has been troublesome almost from the start (including a trip to the shop where it was replaced while still under warranty)...it'll recognize movie DVDs most times, the Snow Leopard install disk sometimes, the Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac all the time...and the Windows 7 64bit Home Premium OEM DVD disk, never.
It's an early 2008 MacBook Pro (4,1), with an LG (I'm pretty sure) HL-DT-ST- DVDRW GSA-S10N with revision AP12.
I put the disk in both a Windows laptop and our other MacBook Pro, and it's not the disk. (Wish I knew enough to successfully use MBP 2's superdrive to install using Parallels on MBP 1's hard drive.)
I've got to be missing something...

Thanks so far for the 2.5 replies, but...I restarted computer and walked away to let it do its thing, came back and it looked like it was asleep. Now, it won't start...period. Push and hold power button, LED at front goes dark. Push power button, small superdrive spin up, LED in lid release button goes bright, then dim, same black screen like computer is dead.
I instinctively tried taking off power supply and removing battery...same results. Came across instructions for a SMC re-set, did those...same results.
Edit: I even instinctively then tried removing one RAM module, to see if that would make it snap out of its funk. Next I'll try unplug, removing battery and walking away...
Ouch, perfect timing, as MBP1 just came off warranty a couple months ago. Now I'm wondering if I even spend the $50 at Tech Advanced (no apple store nearby) to get the stupid thing evaluated (now it doesn't look like a superdrive problem, now it looks like some motherboard prob).
sig, as far as bringing drive back...I'm sure that it (the replacement drive) is also out of warranty. johnl927, I have no idea of what you speak.

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