I just had my first DVD burner go out on me, and that's exactly what it was doing.  The first symptom was that it took 40 minutes to burn a cd.  If I tried to extract a disc using that drive it would just skip - and use a lot of my cpu's resources.  I defraged to no avail.  Then when I tried to burn a DVD with decrypter my buffer would jump all over the place, but never get above 25 or 30%  
 
Oh well, I'm replacing it with a dual layer, so I can justify it as an upgrade  
I doubt it's the harddrive, if you just bought it in November it should still be under some kind of warranty
		
 
		
		
		
		
		
		
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