Slow drive copy after firmware update

Installed the update. Drive info:
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080MA:
Firmware Revision: AE39
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media: No
Drive now takes 20 minutes to copy a 3GB DVD over to the HD. Seems to be spinning very slowly (quietly). Did not take this long prior to the update. It is not a HD problem as I can still copy quickly from my external HD to internal, and there are no outward signs of the copy slowing down.
So far I have:
- repaired permissions
- reset the pram (forget what its called, held apple-option-p-r at startup)
Ideas? Advice? Coffee, tobacco, alcohol to commiserate my suffering?

This is just a standard OS file copy.
I have tried different DVDs, CDs, so it is not the medium.

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