Ibook reading, writing, importing into itunes - CD ROM problems

I have a 14" ibook G4 with a CD burner. It used to work fine. Now the CD-ROM had not been working properly. A numbe of thing have been happening, consistantly.
With itunes, when I import a disc, it imports with a weird cracking/snapping sound in the background (kind of like an old record) when I play the song back. This is a mojor bummer when trying to import songs onto my ipod from my CD collection.
With disc's that people burn for me (such as wedding photo's) no matter what the format is, whether it be a psd, gif, jpeg it does not open the file correctly, I can't open it in preview, photoshop....nothing.
When I open in photoshop it says, "Can not complete request because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found."
When I try to open in preview it says, "Couldn't open the file. It may be corrupt or a file format that Preview doesn't recognize."
I know it's not a problem with the actual files because I have been having friends take the files from the CD's and putting them on a usb drive for me (from which I can retrieve the pictures just fine.)
When I try to play a DVD , the movie skips a lot and then freezes.
I have run a disk utility repair with no success.
Please, any suggestions?
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) CD Burner, DVD ROM (no burner)

I had had the same problem yesterday downloading for a friend and can't figure it out. Any help or info you have would be great!

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