Idvd not recognizing superdrive

Something happened recently, I'm not sure what. Recently itunes didn't recognize the superdrive, and now IDVD doesn't either. Maybe I installed an update that messed up something, I can't recall. I burned a dvd on it a couple of months ago so I know it used to work. Any help pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Check under the Apple - About this Mac - and click through until you see details about your hardware. You can see at that level if your Mac recognizes the superdrive.
For general maintenance, I use MacJanitor (free) to trigger the Mac's maintenance scripts and then use Apple Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
You might get better response over in the Hardware forum.
John

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