MacBook Air USB Superdrive Won't Accept Disks

We recently purchased a MacBook Air and our client wanted to have OS X wiped out and have Windows XP SP/2 only.
In order to accomplish this, we purchased the $99 MacBook Air USB Superdrive, booted to the OS X installation CD, ran the Disk Utility, wiped the hard drive, ejected the OS X cd, rebooted and inserted the Windows XP SP/2 installation CD. We installed Windows XP SP/2 and configured all the drivers via bootcamp.
The MacBook Air runs XP just dandy. Even the MacBook Air USB Superdrive was working within Windows XP SP/2 on the MacBook Air.
But recently, the MacBook Air USB Superdrive has been having problems. We can no longer insert a disk. Upon trying to insert a disk, the drive "pushes back" as if it's stuck in "eject mode."
Has anyone had this problem and if so, how did you resolve it?
Thanks,

I had the same problem before. Seems like the XP driver has a problem and doesn't work when the drive is plugged in AFTER XP has started. Try plugging the Superdrive before you start XP and see if it works.

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If you are able to open the bottom plate of the Superdrive, take it off, you'll see that Apple has placed a small black foam square pad (about 1/2" square), at the top of the internal unit (at the top near the entrance slot). This small square foam rubber pad is not evident on some earlier Apple Superdrive units, indicating that Apple had figured out the internal unit was "hanging up" some disks inside by not being aligned with the slot properly (the tolerances were obviously designed very tight by Apple. So what they did was a "fix" where a piece of rubber was added to the internal component, that raise the internal drive better to allow the disc to eject better.
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1. Before opening the bottom plate, protect it from scratching …. open with a thin dinner knife or putty blade.
2. This is what the bottom plate looks like, taken off, Note where the metal clips are located
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4. This is a close-up of what the bottom plate clips look like. They are metal and pretty strong.
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7. The FIX … Applied another (same thickness as original), over the Apple original pad. This gave enough
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