I use "Laser Lens Cleaner", which is a disk specially made to clean optical drives. I bought it years ago to clean my CD players and it still works great. I've had it so long I don't remember where I bought it, but they are available...Doug --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>