@melott:
If it were an alignment issue, it would most likely not be worth the time needed to realign it, given that a replacement CD-ROM can be found for a few bucks. I must say that I am not a fan of this "wear, tear quickly and buy a new one" trend of today, but often it is just not worth it to spend a lot of time, say half a day, repairing something when you can get a new one for a symbolic sum. Though, in your freetime its not like you are loosing money by repairing something, disregarding how cheap it is.
At work it is only profitable to repair rather expensive things by yourself instead of buying a new replacements. Just consider how much a CD-ROM repair would cost the company hiring you, given that you need half a day to repair it. That would be 4 hours of salary for the company - in other words a very expensive repair, you could actually buy a bunch of CD-ROMs for that amount of money.
Am I babbling to much..........?
/Patrik
