ibook G4 does not recognize CD

[mrgrphx]

I am very familiar with the macs, since I have had macs for over 19 years, but if anyone has had this issue please advise..

I have couple ibook G4 for home, and my daughter's computer seems to have a problem recognizing most CD, I re-installed panther and I updated it to the latest 10.3.9 but the same issue keeps happing, it seems that it recognize the Apple Install CDs, it also recognize some PC install only cds, but it kicks out immediately other CDs such as install CD for Norton, and cd's like Liquid Library, and CD's that I burned on any of my other computers.

I have not completely narrowed it down but it seems that is CDs that are "Hybird" both Mac & PC systems, it seems to read only Mac and only PC.

Please advise if anyone else have had this issue and what were the fixes..

 

[Satcomer]

I am going to save you some REAL FUTURE HEADACHES! Please throw the Norton for OS X away!!!! The product was discontinued and you need to de-install it as soon as you can.

Also do some maintenance on the Os X machine (on both machines). Just download Onyx and rum the maintenance routines. Then after that you can Repair Permissions and this should be done on a OS X machine about every two weeks to keep it running in tip top shape.

One more thing, OS X can sometimes right stuff to memory that is plain screwy. However a quick routine to clear OS X's PRAM is to reset the pram.