Reinstalling the CD-RW

I've been struggling with my CD-RW drive communicating with Windows after installing Secvice Pack 2. My current thought is to uninstall the drive and reinstall it and see if that resolves it. (Any thoughts on this?) Tim suggested reformatting and reinstalling XP from scratch, which I am sure would probably optimize how my computer is running, but I'm a big wimp and coward and just lack the techie-confidence right now.