As for the question, your question was this: Is $1000 reasonable, and the answer is no.
So now what? Go get another drive. Then put it in. You can't void the warrantee, huh? You can find some apple manuals put out by mac usergroups. Its not hard to swap out a drive in a G4---once you figure out the order of doing things. Just keep a heavy muffin pan nearby so you don't lose the little screws.
My personal opinion is that I would not put a superdrive in a laptop. It just seems like too much to me. and you can't do anything with the laptop while you are rendering and burning anyway. So I'd get an internal combo and an external firewire. (I use a little free plugin called HPfurz to burn to an external drive with iDVD) (To show you how smart I am, however, please note that OWC has T-Book 2x superdrive for $179. Criminy, that's less than their combo drive.) for all i know, they might have a pdf showing how to put it in.---external 4xDVD-Rfirewire is $159 including somesoftware and some media that they might leave out for less if you ask.
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