Optical drive accepts discs, tries to read, then ejects - THIS WORKS!!

OMG!
I had this problem! I was just about ready to replace the drive, but then found this link. It uses a credit card and a soft cloth. ALL of my disks work AND I can burn CDs and DVDs again!! The fix is at the bottom of the page.
http://muzso.hu/2008/08/17/how-to-clean-the-lens-of-a-slot-loading-optical-drive -a-macbook-pros-superdrive?page=2

Thank you for the link and the advice.
I followed the path taken by several posters on the link site. They stated that they had used a credit card and a soft cleaning cloth (like the one that shipped with the MBP). I followed this route (although not with a credit card), surmising that this did not require me to dismantle my MBP and the superdrive.
Although I'm not sure what I did, nor where the application of this method was precisely effective, it nonetheless worked and my superdrive has been resurrected.

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