Superdrive no longer mounts music CDs...

I have a G4 Mac mini and out of the blue my drive no longer mounts music CDs or blank CD-Rs. However it will mount DVDs and data discs without a hitch. Even blank DVDs mount without a problem.
When a music CD or blank is inserted you can hear the drive try to read it a handful of times, but after about 60 seconds it just spits it out. I just noticed the behavior, but I haven't ripped much music lately, so it might have happened a few weeks ago (iTunes auto-update related issue perhaps?).
I have tried repairing permissions, restarting iTunes, restarting the system, etc., but now I'm out of ideas. Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Macmini Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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