Need to reinstall iWorks but my Superdrive won't read disk.

Hi folks
I recently had a problem with 'NUmbers' not loading and after following the instructions of a very helpful forum member I have sorted out the problem. This, however, has thrown up another issue though and I wonder if anyone could help?
Since I installed Mountain Lion my Superdrive refuses to load most disks but as I hardly need it I don't feel inclined to spend time or money fixing it, however when I came to reinstall iWorks '09 from the disk - you guessed it - it would not load! I therefore had to downloadand a trial to see if I had fixed the problem.
My question is therefore, as I am the owner of a kosher iWorks '09 disk is there anyway I can gain access to the iWorks app in the Mac app store but without having to pay for it again?
By the way if anyone knows a way of sorting out my Superdrive I would be very grateful also ;o)
Cheers Steve

The DVD version of iWork has no serial number and can't be upgraded to anything else.
If your Superdrive is broken, just buy an external USB2 DVD/CD drive from eBay. That is a Pioneer USB 3.0 BDR RW drive, but there are cheaper models.
I got a USB Bluray drive for a fraction of what Apple was going to charge me for their repair and as a bonus it reads DVDs twice as fast as well as reads/writes Bluray disks! Apple put a brake on their internal optical drives as a "fix" for something or other.
The speed of my external drive is nice but it does make one **** of a spinning noise.
Peter
PS when you get to read your DVD make a disk image of it and store that on a drive somewhere as your backup installer.

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