Optical Drives no longer work after itunes8

I'm running on Vista and updated to iTunes 8. My computer has stopped playing CDs and DVDs. My drives didn't disappear as some people are seeing. Mine are still visible and accessible,I mean, you can go into them manually, but when I do it's just dozens of Video_TS and Audio_TS files. What do I do to get my computer putting them all back together again?/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png I've spent a day working on this , Thanks

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Try running a DVD Lens Cleaner disc through it, a little bit of dust or dirt is all it takes to throw them out and it might just be co-incidental with the upgrade.

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    [ 117.765858] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb]
    [ 117.765861] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
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    [ 117.765875] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
    [ 117.765877] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 3f 00 00 08 00
    [ 117.922568] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
    [ 117.922576] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb]
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