CD player working, DVD is not

I have a strange new problem. My G5's CD player is working fine, but the DVD will not load. I used a laser cleaner but to no avail. I rebooted and repaired permissions but nothing seems to work. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks.

Sometimes, you just need to change the setting in System Preferences CDs & DVDs pane. If it's video DVDs you are having trouble with, change +When you insert a video DVD+ to something else, like Ignore. See if the DVD will now mount to desktop without doing anything. If that works, set it back to whatever it was before, like *Open DVD Player*.
Changing the setting rewrites the preference file, which is often all you need to get it to work again like it's supposed to work.

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