Yet more Superdrive firmware 2.1 problems

Like everyone else I di the firmware update, and now whilst the macbook works OK, the superdrive will not recongise any disc as anything other than a CD read only disc with 564.3mb capacity. Toast will not write to it.
I'm seriously upset at Apple for this as I'm away seeing family on the other side of the planet and I have all my home movies on the MB, the plan was for them to see which ones they want then I could burn them. That planned is now screwed.
I've repaired permissions and done a PRAM reset, no change. Any suggestions to get the superdrive working again?

Have you tried running the update a second time?
I don't know if it'll let you do it - removing the SuperDriveFWUpdate.pkg in /Library/Reciepts may help.
There should be a SuperDrive Update 2.1 in /Applications/Utilities that you could try running again, or if you want to start from scratch, delete it and re-download.

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