DVD Player - Need a hack

This query relates to the utterly stupid feature in the DVD Player that only allows you to set the Disk playback region code 5 times. This means that if you play disks which do not have a 0 prefix code, you can only re-set to watch disks from other regions 5 times.
Anybody know how to re-set, or delete this feature without causing any damage?
Jeez, this is annoying. If I go to Japan and Europe on one trip, it means that I will have to attempt to find 0 code disks, which some of the older movies I want do not have, or risk hving my PB DVD player permanently set to region code other than North America. It's a dumb feature btw, Apple, if you are listening.
Help.

Natalie,
Check with the system profiler to see which drive you have.
If I'm not mistaken, it's the Matshita CD-RW CW-8123 with firmware revision CA10. If this is it, then there are no hacks for the drive available yet.
You could try David's suggestion above.
As for ripping DVDs, you will need a couple of applications. First, you have to follow David's suggestion to stop Finder from launching DVD Player when you insert a DVD. There are a number of applications you will need to rip you DVDs. I use Mac The Ripper to rip the DVDs. I use Roxio Popcorn to compress the DVDs and burn them to single layer DVD-Rs. You should be able to find all these programs at www.versiontracker.com/
Check this thread as well:
KHN Lim, "backup commercial dvds" #2, 09:18am Aug 3, 2005 CDT
Also, you might want to google "rip different" to learn a little more on backing up your original DVDs.
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