SuperDrive reads DVDs

I've noticed a lot of people have drives that won't read or write DVD's but still work with CD's and CD-ROM's. I am having the opposite problem where my drive will read and write to DVD (video & data) but anytime I put in a CD-ROM, Audio CD, or Blank CD-R the drives spins it a couple of times and then spits it back out.
What's very frustrating is that I was listening to CD's and burning CD-ROM's just last night. This computer is only 40 days old. (grrr) Any ideas?

Thanks for the idea, but it didn't work for me. My drive will read any sort of DVD just fine (DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD movies, DVD-ROM, etc) and it will even burn DVD's. The problem is it will not read any sort of CD (Audio CD, CD-ROM, CD-R, etc).
The drive is a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-109
G5 dual 2.0   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

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