Mac mini CD-Burner almost kills itself

my CD burner in my mini almost kills itself, literally.
when burning ANY CD over 4X, half way through it will speed up WAY beyond what the drive can even support, and vibrate so LOUD, and cause the whole Mac to freeze, and force me to hold down the power button...
However, my external DVD burner has no trouble burning those same CDs at 48X...
Is there a firmware update for the CD-burner in my Mac mini or something that can fix this?
Combo Drive..

I have the exact same problem. When burning any CD over 4x, the optical drive in my Mac mini will get extremely loud and vibrate and a short time later the Mac will slow to a crawl and lock up. I am really concerned that it's damaging the internals because the noise is so loud.
The only way to stop the noise and unfreeze the system is to manually turn it off-- I can't even login remotely.
I also have a Combo drive.
I called AppleCare about the issue, and how it's definately a hardware issue, but twice they refused to help me... I live too far away (at least 80 miles) from a AASP or an Apple store. I kinda expected to get an RMA like Dell and other menufacturers commonly do udner warranty. It kinda ***** that my warranty is practically worthless.
I can't even find a exact replacement optical drive... the only one I could find was a dual-layer DVD burner from Other World Computing for $119. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/mac-mini/superdrive/
Let me know if you find anything else that helps... I'd be glad to know.

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Well.. I just started this thing up after letting it stay off last night and today. Upon log on it shut down and restarted itself before I even got to the main screen.
Here is the report:
Mon Jan 27 18:09:44 2014
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff800badc19e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff800ba55490, type 13=general protection, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000002ab700c, CR3: 0x000000002636f011, CR4: 0x00000000001606e0
RAX: 0xfacadeb2e7ecb083, RBX: 0xffffff8019d703f0, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0x0000000000000000
RSP: 0xffffff808b7ab580, RBP: 0xffffff808b7ab580, RSI: 0x000000000000bb94, RDI: 0xffffff8019d70fa0
R8: 0xffffff8019d703f0, R9: 0xffffff8019d703f0, R10: 0xffffff808b7ab490, R11: 0xffffffffffffffff
R12: 0xffffff8019d703f0, R13: 0xffffff8017cf23c0, R14: 0xffffff8017d1cb98, R15: 0xffffff8017cea600
RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff800ba55490, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000000
Fault CR2: 0x0000000002ab700c, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x2
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8084baddf0 : 0xffffff800ba22f69
0xffffff8084bade70 : 0xffffff800badc19e
0xffffff8084bae040 : 0xffffff800baf3606
0xffffff8084bae060 : 0xffffff800ba55490
0xffffff808b7ab580 : 0xffffff800bbfacf6
0xffffff808b7ab590 : 0xffffff800bd6e852
0xffffff808b7ab650 : 0xffffff800bd6bd6f
0xffffff808b7ab6b0 : 0xffffff800bd84892
0xffffff808b7ab710 : 0xffffff800bbfc216
0xffffff808b7abae0 : 0xffffff800bbfc106
0xffffff808b7abb20 : 0xffffff7f8c3691cd
0xffffff808b7abcc0 : 0xffffff7f8c3692a2
0xffffff808b7abce0 : 0xffffff7f8c3672db
0xffffff808b7abd20 : 0xffffff800bdc6b3a
0xffffff808b7abd70 : 0xffffff800be160be
0xffffff808b7abf00 : 0xffffff800be205ba
0xffffff808b7abf60 : 0xffffff800be3db67
0xffffff808b7abfb0 : 0xffffff800baf3af8
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.kaspersky.kext.klif(2.1d5)[458E888B-C722-9BC1-926C-4B96147C29FA]@0xffffff7f 8c365000->0xffffff7f8c38bfff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kav
Mac OS version:
13B42
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 1D9369E3-D0A5-31B6-8D16-BFFBBB390393
Kernel slide:     0x000000000b800000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800ba00000
System model name: Macmini6,1 (Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 67562635373
last loaded kext at 49884225093: com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch          80.14 (addr 0xffffff7f8d7b8000, size 77824)
loaded kexts:
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