Burned dvd-r won't play in external players

I just upgraded from an iMac G5 to a Power Mac. I was using DVDSP on my iMac and never had any problems burning. I recently burned a small project from DVDSP onto the same exact DVD-R media that I've always used (Memorex) and went to play it on the same exact external DVD player that I've always used (Toshiba), and the DVD wouldn't play. I also tested it out on my friend's sony dvd player, and it also wouldn't play. It plays fine on my computer. I used the same exact settings that I did on my iMac (field order:bottom; two pass VBR; max bit rate of 8.2; "Best"). Out of curiosity, I also tried burning a dvd from iDVD, and that also wouldn't play on the external players. I then tried burning an audio CD from iTunes (again, using the same exact settings and same exact media and external CD player), and the CD wouldn't play, except on my computer. I even tried burning the CD at a lower speed (8x), but that made no difference.
I took it into the Apple store, and they replaced the optical drive. However, as I suspected, that did not solve the problem at all. So here I am having just "upgraded" to a Power Mac from a perfectly good iMac, and I have lost all functionality of these programs. I believe it is an issue with Tiger, since I did not have Tiger on my iMac. I did download the Pro Application Support 3.0 when I first got the power mac, which I thought was supposed to solve problems that people were having under Tiger.
I have also read people's entries here which suggest using Toast to burn with. Honestly, I don't see that as a solution, unless Apple starts including it with their systems. These programs (DVDSP, iDVD, iTunes) all have their own burn functions which are supposed to work. And they did work on my iMac, without fail. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I used the same exact settings that I did on my iMac (field order:bottom; two pass VBR; max bit rate of 8.2; "Best").
It sounds like you have some other issues going on since nothing is working properly it sounds like, usually first thing to check is that bit Rate which is high, but it sounds like nothing is working
Have you tried reparining permissions after the updates? Have you tried making a new user/account and see if that works? Which version of Tiger? Is this a new Power Mac or an older one (in other words is somehow the burner not rated for the media you are using? That one is a stretch....) How about RAM, any after market RAM (like buy a Mac get 512 Meg upgrade) sometimes that RAM is buggy and can cause issues, though never heard of this happening

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