Superdrive has stopped reading DVD's, replaced drive and have same issue

Hello,
My G5 2.0 superdrive has been acting up for quite some time however it stopped mounting any DVD media from Movies to Apple OS Install DVD's. It reads CD's, both commercial and burnt. Every blue moon it will actually read a DVD but it is becoming few and far in between.
To make things even more interesting, I replaced the drive on my main machine with the identical perfectly working drive from my other G5 and I am still experiencing the same issue. The other machine reads just DVD's just fine with both drives.
I believe this is caused from software updates from what I've been reading around the web. I would like to hope that this is simply a preference that needs deleted or something that can be resolved quickly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I am having the same problem which has been getting worse. I put in a DVD, the drive makes sounds as if it is getting ready to read it, but then just keeps making the same sounds over and over. The disk will speed up and then down. Every so often it will "catch" and read the DVD.
This is frustrating because I have the install disks for Leopard sitting on my desk but I can not install it. If I do get it to read the disk once, it asks me to restart and then will not read the disk the start the install, ejects the disks and boots back to 10.4 from my hard drive.
CD read and write just fine, no problem.
Has anyone solved this problem?

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