No, when I was having problems with the superdrive, they were intermittent and didn't get in the way of daily operation. At least, not enough to make me get off my lazy ass and take it to the apple store at the time. So the first time I walked back into that apple store was 13.5 months after purchase.

PS: After replacing the faulty hard disk, I am now still having the same problems with the superdrive. It burns DVD+R media just fine, but when I feed it blank CD-Rs to burn, it spins at a billion RPM, makes awful noises, and locks up the system.