Weird incident with DVD drive

Weird thing happened last night... was taking out a DVD from the drive and a small thin donut shapped rubbery/cloth-like thing (best I can describe it) came out with it... any ideas what that could be and if that's going to affect operation of my computer? I've been able to write a DVD since it happened, but have also had a couple fail during writing.
Thanks.
PowerBook 12" Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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Sounds like some part of the DVD drive is falling to pieces. Either that or a copy-protected ring fell off a copy-protected disk. Hopefully it is the latter. I'd take it to a service center to be sure.

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