well, unfortunately, there's not a lot that can be done for cd drives, shy of buying a new one. You can purchase a lens cleaner for about 10 bucks, and see if that helps, but I don't think that's the issue here. I'm also not certain that the drive is dead, but half of the sites I get when I google the error codes are blocked here at work.....maybe I should be working.
regardless, let me check into it from home this weekend and I'll post back....
thanks for your patience,
v