T400 DVD drive stops spinning

I just had to install my third hard drive in this lemon of a computer. I'm running XP SP3 with all current updates. The bios and dvd drivers that were installed by Thinkvantage Productivity Center are newer than what are listed on the Lenovo updates page. I had no problem with the DVD drive with the old hard drive and its drivers.
Now I try to reinstall my software from the original CDs and the drive stops spinning within a minute of starting the install. Setup.exe process hangs and System log gets a message from Service Control Manager that reads "The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service entered the stopped state." I can start the service manually but it reenters the stopped state every time I try the install from CD again.
Current bios 7UET89WW (3.19) date
Model HL-DT-ST RW/DVD MU10N combo CD/DVD driver seen in Device Manager is 5.1.2535.0 date 7/1/2001. No newer driver is found when I choose update from Device Manager or when I use ThinkPad SATA Optical Disc Drive Firmware Update Utility. I have uninstalled the device and let it reinstall on its own and get the same driver.
However, when I launch Thinkvantage Productivity Center and go to Advanced System Info, under Components/CD-ROM the driver is version 5.1.2600.5512 date 4/13/2008. The drive does not show up under Problem Devices and tests fine.
Any suggestions how to get my optical drive back to functioning? I've lost 3 days of work from this whole episode.
tia

Do you mean test it to see if it will burn data or boot from a Linux distro to look more closely at the drive? I have knoppix on DVD but I could use another computer to burn linux live if that has some particularly good tools.
I haven't tried to burn anything to a DVD using the drive. I was able to get a few photos copied off a CDROM onto the hard drive before it spun down and imapi stopped itself.
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