10.5.3 and Front Row DVD player crashes

I have been using Front Row with 10.5.2 to play DVDs - seamless experience
Upgraded to 10.5.3 and have been getting regular crash out of front row to home page.
Is this a known issue?

Rasterblaster wrote:
Start frontrow GUI using the iMAC remote 'menu' button.
Select DVD and play via the Frontrow GUI using remote only to pass through menu
Symptom seen:
In the middle of DVD playback MPEG codec glitch (i.e. blocks formed when b or p frames not propertly decode), on other occasions playback stops, image changes to the desktop (what ever it is called in mac speak) then after about 1/2 secs the playback resumes.
Yesterday spotted after I finished watching the standard leopard DVD player icon was left on the screen with an error code (sorry I didn't note the code).
This has happened with a couple of DVDs from the same box set (disk is clean/not scratched). The issue didn't happen with 10.5.2 (but different box set). So I don't know if Apple played with the DVD player in 10.5.3 or its integration with frontrow?
All the readme for 10.5.3 says about video is
''Addresses an issue with stuttering video and audio playback in certain USB devices"
This is not directly related but you never know?
Did you do the usual HD and permissions repair before and after upgrading?
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