Apple DVD Player 5.4 Doesn't Work

I recently updated my MacPro to 10.6.5. Included in this update is a new version of Apple's DVD Player. The new version of DVD Player is 5.4. The installation package includes the application and an entirely new system framework to support it. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my system.
As a reference point, my MBP is still running 10.6.4. It has DVD Player 5.2. It works great.
I'm unable to play DVD's or load a VIDEO_TS folder using the latest version of DVD Player on my MacPro. I didn't have any problems with DVD Player up until the Mac OS 10.6.5 update.
Further, VLC on my MacPro works fine. This problem exists for all users on my MacPro.
I tried to reinstall DVD Player 5.4 using Pacifist, but there was no change. I dl'd the 10.6.5 package from Apple when I did this. I also tried to reinstall the 5.4.1 framework.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Are there any known fixes, I prefer to use DVD player over VLC. Nothing against VLC, but DVD Player is a great app when it works.
Thanks!

Yea, I got to thinking about that after I posted. You're right, Boot Camp is safe.
What's very strange is I tried a LOTR DVD over the weekend and it played fine. Thinking it to be a fluke, I tried another ... this time Elf. It worked. I then tried playing from two different VIDEO_TS folders on my HD. They worked too.
I can't explain it. I tried to surgically remove all of the key video player components (including the framework). I then reinstalled these files using the 10.6.5 combo update. No change. I then restored these files using Time Machine (I didn't want to risk messing something else up as there are quite a lot of dependencies stitched together via symlinks at the framework level).
So I should've been back to where I started. A few days later, everything appears to be working.
I have no answers, but I'm glad to have my DVD Player back.
This is off topic, but I also solved a problem I've been having with my mouse for YEARS. I had problems with the Mighty Mouse and later the Magic Mouse on my MacPro. I thought it was my desk. That is, I thought the surface of my desk was causing tracking problems. Very annoying tracking problems. I know, I should've considered bluetooth, but I didn't. To be honest, I wasn't experiencing any other bluetooth related problems so I really thought it was my desk. This problem became unbearable when I was working in Maya last week so I started researching mouse surfaces and mouse pads again (ha!). I inadvertently found this obscure PDF via google. It was written by some guy who was having the same problem 2-3 years ago. Following this guy's procedure, I cracked open my MacPro and moved three difficult to reach wires. Now my Magic Mouse is as smooth as glass. As is my older Mighty Mouse. It turns out that my Airport and Bluetooth modules were wired incorrectly at the factory in China. Honestly, this has been screwed up since 2007. Apparently, this has happened to quite a few people though I never heard about it until now. It would've been nice if Apple would've published something when they discovered they had shipped units with incorrectly wired Bluetooth modules! (if they did, I've yet to find anything from them on the subject). Whatever, I'm glad to have my MacPro's mouse working properly.

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