Slowly I have been getting my TS into a shape of my liking.  It still doesn't go to sleep reliably (until I do something in the Power Options control panel), frequently fails to relink to my wireless network after restarts/sleeps (which can be a real bear with as many Windows update patches come through that require a restart), and I hate how it shifts and resizes all of my windows after going into the screensaver mode that fades/pans pictures (why does it need to change screen rez to show pix?).  

My biggest blunder to date with this thing is getting a dvd jammed in the slot drive.  Eventually, I managed to extract the disc after much tugging and invoking the manual eject hole, but I wonder if this is pretty much the end of the disc drive of this kind of construction (super slim profile, slot drive).  Is it pretty much pulled out of alignment where it comes to the motor hub and any related loading/ejection mechanism?  I'm pretty hesitant to ever put another disc in there again (should I have to go through the tortuous manual extraction process all over again), and when I loaded that disc it made a bunch of dragging noises as the drive attempted to spin it (unsuccessfully).  

So are these kinds of drives pretty much toast after the first instance of a really hard jam?