Optiarc BD-5500S in Sony VGN-NS190J No Disc Found?

[Klax]

First off, letme say hello and how much I love using this site to keep up to date on Blu-Ray releases and reviews. Unfortunetly my first post here is a problem...

I got a Vaio laptop back around Christmas. The thing worked great until windows decided to die a week later. I reformatted with Vista Ultimate 64-Bit and I have not been able to get the Blu-Ray drive to work! It worked previously on Vista Home Premium Edition (Watched Dark Knight and Resident Evil Degeneration). I have yet to find a fix for it, and even contacted Sony support and they did not give me an answer. The drive plays and recognizes everything but Blu-Rays. When I put a Blu-Ray in the drive it spins for a bit then nothing happens. I tried using WinDVD, PowerDVD, AnyDVD, and various codec packs and nothing works. When I look at the drive in My Computer Windows does recognize that it is indeed a BD Drive, but will not read them. It just ejects the disc and says "Please insert disc". I cannot find a fix anywhere and I hope someone can help. I've been searching the internet and found most people have the same drive but other problems and it's generally with HP's. Things I have tried were...

Flashing Drive Firmware
Deleting lower/upper registry filers
Installing various Blu-Ray playback programs and codecs
Updating to Windows 7 Beta

Still, I have nothing...I really hope there is a fix to this, I hate having the player yet I have no way to use it...