Optical drive ejects disks when I put them in

I tried inserting a disk into the optical drive and it would eject it right after.

Since my machine was only 2 days old the genius bar let me exchange my mac for a new one after seeing the problem in action, he even tried the DVD in 3 other macs at the counter, 2 could read it and one could not. the problem was thought to be with a dual-layer DVD but he grabbed some other DVDs and it was able to read it, so whatever the difference between the 64-bit and the 32-bit DVDs of windows 7 is, that is what the problem is isolated to in my case. I got my new machine home and it still cannot read the disk. Same problem as before, it reads the disk and promptly ejects it, I think the firmware needs to be upgraded because it does this in windows, during a boot, or within snow leopard. Please let me know what else I can try before I take this machine back.

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