My ibook’s cd drive has broken twice in the last week. The drive simply didn’t work – stick a disc into it and nothing happened, whether I am used OS 9 or OS X. The first time it broke I called Apple and they spent maybe 30-40 minutes on the phone with me zapping the pram and resetting the power manager and so on. It worked after we reset the power manager so I figured ‘problem solved.’ But 24 hours later the same thing happened and I spent an hour repeatedly trying all the tricks the Apple support person had taught me to no avail. I was bummed. For the past 4-5 days, no cd drive, and I have been dreading having to turn it in to Apple. Then inspiration struck and I pulled the equivalent of a ‘Fonzie’ and took a screwdriver to the drive, forcing the armature the laser is mounted on to move up and down its tracks. Ta da, problem solved. Of course now I have a known problem with the drive (it sticks) that I can’t prove to the Apple folks, so I can’t decide whether I should hope for it to happen soon so I can get it fixed under warranty, or simply hope for it to never happen again.