DVD player refused to recognize commercial DVD

I'm not sure why this happens but my new core2duo refused to read a
fairly new video DVD (Lady Vengeance). It's a region 1 disc. When I
use Front Row and insert the disc, I get a message indicating that "the
format of the disk is not supported," or words to that affect. The disc
does not mount on the desktop. Now, I've already played three or four commercial DVDs on this machine before and never had a problem.
To confuse matters, the disc plays just fine in my old iMac G4 widescreen (with the front tray loader), which is also running 10.4.8.
The DVD is a rental from the local video store. Anyone know what's going
on? Is this an encoding issue or has Apple slipped in some sort of anti-piracy firmware that doesn't like this disc. It's not a bootleg disc.
Since, strictly speaking, this isn't a Front Row issue, and I'm not quite sure where to post my query, I'm going to post in the general Tiger forum as well.

Go to: Apple / System Preferences / CDs & DVDs you
see the five "When you insert a" look at the last one
"When you insert a video DVD." This needs to be set
to "Open DVD Player" use the arrows to select, then
try that movie again.
That was already checked, and wasn't the problem. Based on some other messages, I decided to repair privileges. The only thing fixed were the privs for iTunes (about which there have been a number of messages on MacFixit). Not sure what the relationship is but that seems to have fixed the problem, which sounds more like a bug.

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