I've already cleaned the lens and everything, its only having problems with vice city maybe because that game really needs almost if not full ps2 power ?

When I bring it in for repair it's gonna cost me more then I want to pay because there are things that have higher priority, and before all that is paid, ps3 has probably been released :P

U could actually be right about the DVD thing because now I think of it, it didnt start acting fucked until after I played some DVD's, hmm who knows maybe thats it. It also depends on what version ps2 u got, they all seem to act differently.