Optical drive automatically turns off due to power saver

I had a problem not being able to burn a disc
http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Satellite-Laptops-A-Series/missing-burning-drive-please-help/td-p/22362...
that I solved myself when I figured out it was because the optical drive turned off on its own.
My new problem is how do I get the optical drive to stay on or to be able to turn it on when I need it? Doing a search in the forums here I found several other people with this problem but no good solution. Unless I am missing it?
I did see the suggestion of going into the advanced power settings and making sure the optical drive power management was set to on for both plugged in and battery power. This does not solve the problem though because my computer randomly turns the optical drive on and off as indicated by a pop up bubble in the right side of my task bar. I also tried pressing fn and tab to change the setting but this does not work either.
How the heck do I get the thing to stay on?
Im running windows 7 64 bit and have a sattelite A660
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I know it's been a while since Amber posted this, but I just ran into this same problem and want to share what worked for me, when nothing else did. My CD/DVD drive was not reading CDs at all and was not showing up under My Computer. It kept telling me the Optical Drive was off, when in fact the energy settings had it turned on. I tried everything that everyone else suggested and nothing worked. I finally found this page that solved my problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982116
**Note: on my computer, under Device Manager, my disk drive was giving a Code 19 error, which is a problem with the registry and therefore affects the optical drive. Apparently this fix can work for that, as well as some other error codes. As always, use caution when editing registries. Make sure you have the right path before doing anything.
I hope this helps someone else out there from having to pay money to fix a simple coding problem! (Toshiba wanted to charge me $49!)

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