Need to replace DVD drive

It looks like my Pioneer DVD-RW-DVR-107D will no longer work (read or write)with DVD disks. I still functions with CDs. However, it will not even accept a blank DVD disk.
I got very good advice from this site back in the fall of 2004 concerning where to purchase a replacement drive, including a model number, for myparticular Mac. The replacement did a high volume of great DVDs for me, until yesterday.
Can someone recommend the current optimum drive to replace the DVR-107D on an old Dual G-4 so that I can keep operating for a while? The current drive lasted from October 4, 2004 until now.
Thanks:
Bill Livesay

Hi Bill,
Just recently I added a Pioneer DVR110D to a dual MDD 1.25GHz.
I put the old driver in the lower bay, and the new one in the upper tray.
I bought the drive at OWC (www.macsales.com) for about $60 plus shipping.
With the Tiger update to 10.4.6, this drive is fully Apple supported for burning all kinds of CD's, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DL DVD up to 16x.
Hope this helps.
--Uli
QS-2001 867MHz, Giga 7AD-1800U, 1.5GB RAM, 280GB HDD, ATI9800Pro, PCI FW Card Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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