Superdrive destroying disks

My superdrive has started destroying disks placed into it. It has done so to movie and game dvd's and a game cd. It makes a great deal of audible noise spinning up when the disk is inserted, mounts the disk without showing anything in the image when opened and "RINGS" the disk, IE it "cuts" a ring into the disk.
Anyone seen something like this?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) I have the all current updates

I have this issue as well.....
I have gone from 10.5.0 with the Kernel panic upon insertion of a DVD (known issue) to the 10.5.2 which I don't remmeber having this problem, but i have been at 10.5.0 for awhile since my restore.
I am now at 10.5.4 and I can't get the mac install disks to take or dvd's. Only one disk so far has read. This is VERY annoying and i don't understand why apple has not addressed this issue yet. They need to STOP just replacing things and figure out the reasons why stuff is messing up.
this in addition to recent part of my case cracking off for no reason (another macbook defect).
c'mon apple...get with it here.....love your system, HATE the glitches!!!!
anyone figure out the software problem? I don't think it's a hardware issue at all. the thing worked untill the 10.5.4 update. I hear that the 10.5.5 is the same way. Time to go back to 10.5.2-3 STAY THERE!!!!

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