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					Originally Posted by  Moonliner
					 
				 
				The first idea that springs to mind is a  Drive Cleaner. 
 
Past that, does it work for data CD's?  Does music/video played from the drive do the same thing?  
			
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 The drive works fine for data and if I am loading software.  
Music CDs and movie DVDs both have the same issues, skippy, crackly sound, like the theing is not reading or like a disc is defective.  
I have the Dell default media player and Cyberlink DVD (which is the preferred player for movies) and both have the same issues.  
I will get a drive cleaner and try this out.  I can't imagine it's dirty as I do not use it all that much.  The likelyhood of cat hair in there somewhere is not outside the realm of possibility, either.
Thanks Moonie.