Tried to rip a CD with adhesive label - am I doomed?

I've successfully ripped a few hundred CDs on my Mini. Then yesterday, it came to a complete stop while ripping one. When I ejected it, I realized the artwork on top was on a thin sticky label, not printed directly on the CD. A sinking feeling began.
Since then, if I try to rip a CD it accelerates up to "that jet engine noise" (you know what I mean) and starts to rip... then stalls after a few seconds, stalls, stalls, spins down, spins back up and makes a little progress... The track is eventually ripped, but it's at the equivalent of 2x, and the machine tends to freeze while the rip is stalling, so that's no good.
I tried a CD lens cleaner (that friends of mine had used in slot drives without trouble) and it worked great for the next two discs I ripped, then went back to its former failure mode.
The Mini is out of warranty. Have I gunked the drive irrevocably? How expensive a fix would this be? Can iTunes rip from an external CD drive at the same speed as the internal drive (10-20x)?

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It sounds like your sticky-labeled CD has left enough gunk behind that it has damaged the drive. The fact a lens cleaner helps the situation briefly, but the drive then reverts to it's poor state, suggests that further use of the lens cleaner is inadvisable (they can do more harm than good) so either the drive needs to be opened up and cleaned (a job for an approved service provider if you are not feeling very competent at computer repair yourself) or the internal drive ignored, and an external added.
The later option would be my choice in this situation, I think, particularly since good external drives are not expensive and perform rather better and more reliably than the internal slot load models Apple uses.
Have a look at http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/optical-drives/ for some reasonable options for an external drive which will work with your mini and provide good speed performance.
If you want to replace the internal, that is also possible (http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/mac-mini/superdrive/ for examples) though you would have to add a service cost for the work to be done if you don't feel up to doing it yourself.

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