New MacBook Pro, Won't mount ANY media in superdrive

I just bought a new MacBook Pro on Wednesday (6.20). I have spent a whole day transferring my info over, and today put in a CD to rip and found that the CD wouldn't mount.
I tired blank media, DVD's, CD's, everything and nothing will mount. It will be sucked in the drive, think for about 6 seconds and spit it out. Restarts haven't worked, I tried to run the Hardware Test, but I can't keep the disc in, so no hardware test. I once put the disc in and shut down quickly, then restarted holding down "d", yet it just spit the OS X dvd right back out when it started up.
I can't take this back to the Apple store till monday. Are there any ways to look at this, or will I just be sending my brand new computer to Apple Care 5 days after I bought it?
MacBook Pro 2.4gHz   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

Yes, Please Let me know how it goes. I just left for business with the new MBP and realized the problem so I can't make it to AS till monday. I did call though and of course they said it would go to the Genius Bar.
I asked for the manager and let him know the problem, and kindly told him that I was going to leave the AS on monday with a working MBP. He said, if the drive was dead, he would just swap it out for a new one.
I am not sure how I am going to switch my apple care (since I already registered it)
Hope this helps, and I hope you get you problem solved without loosing the machine to apple care 4 days after the purchase.
MacBook Pro 2.4gHz   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

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