Vice City discs

[Ninjavenom]

My VC disc was somehow corrupted over the summer by a series of minor scratches.

I don't know how they hapened, but they seemed for a while to ruin my disc. I had to run it through a gamedoctor once to get it running with freezing every 5-10 minutes, a second time to get it running with freezing when VROCK was on, a third for it to freeze roughly every thirty to forty minutes and VROCK freezing every second or third song, and i have now currently run it through a fourth time, which results in freezing only every three to four hours, give or take 10 minutes. This seems extremely excessive considering the size of the scratches, which were maybe only 1/5 of an inch each, toward the middle rings of the disc, and very shallow. I'm considering putting it through for a fifth run, but i don't know if it's good to buff that much off of the disc.

Does anyone else have this sort of problem with their discs? I think that maybe due to the amount of information stored on the discs that they may just be very easily corrupted, but i don't know if it's happened to anyone else besides me. My friend's also corrupted pretty badly, and sometimes would not be read by the ps2 when he put it in, but he said he used to leave it out of the case on his desk a lot, so his results are nulled. :/