Dvd drive not playing discs?

I have a first gen macbook pro with a matshita dvd-r.
i never plays any burned dvd's and it has issues with regular dvd's
has anyone else had any problems? the dvd player on my sony PS2 works better than this one.

I just received my MBP 2.33 Core 2 and I'm having issues playing dvds I created on my G5. The first one I tried played back for a little bit then DVD player locked up. Now I can't get any recorded dvds to play. Meet the parents even had problems at first, but on the second attempt it played good. I was doing something else in the bacground but this thing should be able to handel multi tasking! This is the new 6x DL drive not sure if you have the 4x or 6x or not but I'm guessing my problem is this faster drive. Tonight I plan on messing with it somemore to see if I can get it to work. It has me a little concerned right now.
Wonder if this is just an isolated problem for us? Can anyone else comment on this issue? Thanks guys for any comments. They are appreciated. On the upside, I love my MBP core 2!
MacBook Pro 2.33 Core 2, G5 1.8, iMac G4 800   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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