Disc not supported

Hi,
Total n00b here, so be gentle
Recently got a Macbook with Snow Leopard.
Initially played movie DVDs fine, but I now receive "disc not supported" error in DVD Player.
I have read around the topic a bit, so I have already repaired permissions and checked that other DVDs work OK. I got a DVD lens cleaner disc and the video on that works just fine. Volume is unmuted
When I run the command
ls -l /usr/bin/setregion
I get
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 72720 19 Jan 2011 /usr/bin/setregion
Which I think indicates that setregion doesn't have root permissions, but this hasn't been changed by the repair permissions process
Any hints?
Thanks

I've had similar problems since getting my iBook G4 back in August. Almost every single dvd I put in (whether commercial or burned by myself) will either cause the DVD player to close or the dvd won't show up on my desktop at all. When I ask the DVD player to play it says "supported disc not available".
I've run many disk repairs and they don't help at all. It seems many people have been having this problem but I can't find a single person who has been able to solve it.
Any ideas?

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