may I ask how you came to learn about this dust? was it after you pulled it out? On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:43 PM, John Kiss wrote: > Probably not. I had the same problem on my G4 MDD. The problem turned > out to be a dusty laser lens. The dust seemed to be in back of the > lens and unreachable by a Q-tip. I ended up replacing the drive.