DVD Burner fucked?

I have a relatively new (1 year old) DVD Burner and I think it's starting to crap out on me.  Nowadays, it frequently burns bad discs that fail verification about halfway through (or sometimes, confusingly, verify perfectly but then files won't play off the discs).  I tried reinstalling Windows after a format on this drive and it failed about 20 times, in a different spot each time.  Then I tried it on an old CD-RW drive and it installed first try.  Hmmm.

I have transported the drive recently, if that means anything--I believe someone told me once that moving your comp can cause damage to your drives?  Anyhow, I would just toss it and buy a new one, except for one thing: it gives perfect burns like 1/20 times, do I don't think it's completely gone...in fact, just yesterday it burned me a perfect DVD.  Is there anything I can do here?  I really don't want to shell out some hard-earned cash for another drive, I just bought this one...

Fuck, ok.  One last question--while I was looking at Newegg for a new drive in case it WAS dying, I saw some drives marked Lightscribe.  I'm guessing this prints on those blank DVD-R's that are everywhere nowadays, but how does the end product look, all of you who own these drives?  Professional DVD looks? :P Nah, I'm guessing not, but does it look pretty cool at least?  Full color, nice finish, doesn't come off with water, etc?  If so, it seems sorta worthwhile to me since it's impossible to write on those blank DVD-R's without killing your Sharpies.  They eat ink like nothing else.