CD Drive Problems

For a good long while now I have been without a CD drive because I thought it was broken. I haven't had a need to do anything with one but now I do so I figured I would try to fix it. I thought I would end up having to replace it, but I was playing around last night with my World of Warcraft Installation Disk trying to get it to work.

The Eject Button works fine, but when I put a disk in..the green light comes on but it doesnt read it. When I go to My Computer and click the drive it says to please insert a disk. I figure it just isnt reading right?

Ok heres the kicker. I reboot my computer with the disk in, and all of the sudden I can hear the drive working and go to My Computer ..and bam, it is reading the disk. I prematurely cheered and pressed eject and reinserted a disk in hopes that it was forever fixed. However it didnt read the disk after I put it back in.

Any idea of how I can fix this or can someone point me in the direction of where to find out how to get this fixed? Short Summary: CD drive not reading disk, rebooted computer with disk in, disk was read, opened drive, closed drive..not reading disk anymore. Another note, when i rebooted as I said I could hear it reading the disk...now there is nothing...just the green light coming on and flashing for 10 seconds or so before stopping.

How ya doing, buddy?