Hey gang, I've unfortunately got a new twist on this one:

Played COD4 for a couple hours last night on my approx. 6 month old 80gb no probs, booted it up tonight, stuck in COD4, nothing, tried GH3, nothing as well. THe system sucks the disks in but doesn't sound like it's trying too much to read the disk. After finding this and similar threads (and rebooting, trying game disks again and again, etc) I decide my drive is dead and it's sony tech support time...

BUT before I shut it down for the last time I saw Monty Python and the HG DVD sitting next to the machine, and stuck it in just for s--ts and giggles...DVD boots right up and the first few mins of the movie play just fine...huh?

Testing after that shows with game disks shows games are once again booting and seem to be playing normally. Huh huh?

What do you guys think? A "hiccup" or a drive motor that is about to die at any moment?

The unit was purchased in early december, so if the warranty is 12 months for free replacement of faulty US units (please confirm that if anyone knows), I guess I will just keep an eye on it? Not sure if I should do that or go ahead and start the replacement process (pretending it never started working again, of course) while it is still under warranty...

Thanks for any input...
J