Cant go back to my Zone 4 DVD playing mode

I purchased a 2nd hand Powerbook 2 years ago and recently I inserted a Zone 1 DVD (from the US) which a friend gave me to watch. When I inserted it into the DVD drive it came up confirming whether I wanted to change Zones, at the time I wrongly assumed I would be ok to change it as I would have a chance to change it back to Zone 4. No such luck. I can not play my Zone 4 (australian coded) DVDs.
I approached my local Apple Center and they said they could not help. Suggested I search the net. So here I am. Can anyone suggest a way of fixing this issue. Someone suggested I need to flush the RAM. Is that correct? If so how do I do that?
Many thanks in advance
Dennis

Dennis - When your player would not playback Zone 4 DVDs, this simply means your DVD Drive has been region locked to Zone 1 only based on what you mentioned.
The DVD Drive on your PB is allowed only 5 changes before it gets stuck on the last or fifth region setting made on it. In your case it's probably region locked to Zone 1 now.
A region locked DVD Drive is practically impossible to "flush the RAM" or commonly known as update firmware to a zone free drive.
You might have better luck using another DVD Playback software such as VLC 0.8.5 from VideoLAN.org instead of using Apple's DVD Player because VLC ignores the region setting on most DVD drives and DVDs, it plays back the DVD regardless. I did say you "might have better luck" because VLC does not work on all types/makes of DVD Drives.
Check in your System Profiler, what brand/make/model is your DVD Drive. Then go on over to this site and check out threads here www.rpc1.org for information, utilities and software you may find useful.
Good luck.

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