Three optical drives in less than four years?

Hello all,
Thanks in advance for reading. I have a MacBook Pro from 2008 with OS X 10.5.8. I bought OS X 10.6.3 and was excited to install. 1st try - optical drive recognized the install DVD, went through the motions of installing when after several minutes the computer went to blue screen, ejected the DVD, and the computer restarted. Ditto 2nd try. Went to Apple store for help on the issue, where the install was tried again, yielding same results. I bought a CD/DVD lens cleaner from Radio Shack, which did not help. 4th try on the installation, same results as before. I tried various DVD's from my movie collection and they played just fine. This is the second drive in less than four years to go belly up. I am not rough on my computer, nor is my workspace dirty. I'm perplexed though, because the first drive that needed replacing simply stopped working completely. That is, the drive was not displaying the selective behavior that this one is. After some time, I went back to the computer to try installing a 5th and final time. The DVD wouldn't even bring up the install window. The drive would spin for a few seconds and stop, this cycle repeating maybe three times before ejecting the media. I'm stumped - though admittedly, it doesn't take long to exhaust my knowledge as regards computer stuff. Does anyone have experience or suggestions about this? Am I going to have to suck it up and buy a third optical drive?

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