I'm thinking of picking up one of these pretty soon. Recently I've become addicted to Sega GT 2002 on my brother's XBox, but I've played that game to its bitter end and I'm looking for something with ...

I got the slim PS2 at about the same time, and GT4 plays great. I'd try your other games, plus some DVDs, and see if anything else has a problem. Make sure it's not something simple like fingerprints ...