Macbook pro A1260 wont accept disks

Hi my MBP wont take a disk at all it just pushes back out. There is no mech noise like it's engaging it just wont take the disk, this is for all types of disk.
I'm trying to do a reinstall of leopard of my disks, can I do a remote boot using the superdrive on my other MBP??
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks

My brand new Macbook pro with the i7 and 8gb or ram does this. The machine is 2 months old and after calling technical support and doing some browsing i find that it is not a new occurrence. Oddly enough my wife's Macbook pro which is about 1 year old also did it. The condition comes and goes with a rather unpredictable happening. The only fix is to force quit. restart the PMU ans SMC and all that good stuff. Trouble shoot by inserting an entirely different media from a different studio ie since my west wing dvds didn't work i put in planet earth and they did. The drive wasn't dusty or dirty or anything. I simply think some media is more easily read in the super drive than others. I really wish they could look this issue down but when you think about it you really cant control the quality of everones media they use. I wish the superdrive manufactures built into the drive the ability to read all media architecture but im sure somewhere down the line there is a quality/money cutoff point that some media just cant bridge. SO, my advice is do you research and only buy media you know works in your machine, download content from a usb source or internet and burn it to the media that happens to always work. Dont be so quick to dismiss the superdrive as a piece of garbage, its served me well so far.

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