SuperDrive does not read DVDs, but burns them correctly.

Here is what happens:
DVD Rom (CS4 DVD: doesn't read, OSX 10.5 DVD: reads) STRANGE...
DVD-R Video and DVD-R Rom (burned today by this MacPro with Disk Utility and Verified OK: Asks what to do - like with empty DVDs. On the iMac the same DVD video works perfectly)
CD works fine
I already reset the PRAM and NVRAM, but didn't work.
Any suggestion?

On an iMac here it works perfectly. I forgot to mention that, but I tried of course. None of the 4 DVD rom from the CS4 design premium works on the Mac Pro.
The strange thing is that the OSX install DVD works, the iLife 09 DVD works as well.
The CS4 DVD rom does not.
Another VERY strange thing is that I burned a DVD video from Disk Utility (from an iDVD img file). After the DVD was finished Disk Utility verified the burned data, everything was ok so it ejected the DVD.
I loaded the disk back in and the Finder said: Empty disk, open in finder, disk utility, etc... Then I loaded the disk in the iMac and the DVD player started to play back the DVD-R.
The system was upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, so I tried with a clean install I have on a secondary disk (I thought about broken extensions due to the upgraded OS). The problem stays the same.
This makes me think it is a problem not depending from the OS installation, but maybe from PRAM or NVRAM or other stuff on a different layer. I reset PRAM and the problem is still there.
Maybe I need to reset the firmware of the Superdrive or get some suggestion on a physical cleaning of the device, maybe it's just some dust in there...

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