DVD Player just displays static

Well, it's kind of hard to explain, but here is a screenshot of what DVD Player can look like when I try to play a movie: http://showmac.com/dvdstatic.jpg
It seems to display random bits and parts from other on-screen gui elements. Like windows and menu bars. Sometimes it's just garbage, like in the screenshot. Other times one can clearly see iChat buddylists and such, sticking by in the DVD window.
Once the "static" is in place, the "timer" will keep progressing, as if it was playing the movie. No picture though. And no sound, or fragments of sound with quite a few seconds delay.
On top of all this, DVD Player seems to hog 110% of the CPU while doing this "nothing". Trying to stop the playback can take quite a few seconds. And attepting to open a tiny app like Preview.app would take 5 minutes (no kidding).
Weirdest thing is: VLC plays all movies fine. And the issues stay when playing DVD disk images or video_ts folders. So it can't be a faulty drive?
I have tried deleting the DVD Player prefs file, and the Application Support folder. Plus running the cron tasks. Any other suggestions? Running 10.4.3.

I've 1.25 GB RAM and right now about 1 GB free disk space (on boot drive). I've had about 8 GB free at the most, still with problems.
I disabled the following 3rd-party widgets: Hula Girl (http://www.johnwilliams713.com/hula/), Flidget (http://zooibaai.nl/archives/2005/05/01/of-design-mac-and-flickr) and Widget Television VF2 (I see VF3 is out now) (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19539)
I then inserted the Madagascar DVD I got today. And it actually plays! No idea if it was releated to the fact I disabled the mentioned widgets. I'm also running the PB hooked up to a TV now, over the usual Dell display.
When I get back home to my collection I will investigate further. I wouldn't hold my breath, but it sure would be nice if the problem was solved.

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