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My thoughts exactly on the cause, and nice info there, Panging.
There is an option to try. Since you know those discs work (as you've used them before), you may want to try copying them to another set of discs... preferably another brand. This is just to see if the drive is being.. well.. picky with those discs. If it doesn't work again, then it's very likely what Panging has posted.
On a side note... just in case it's dirty, be sure to check that your drives laser is clean of dust or debris. Also, to get around that the issue for the time being you could use an external USB optical drive (a dedicated one, or a 5 1/4 desktop drive hooked up via an IDE to USB adapter) to get things going while you wait to fix or replace the internal drive.
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