DVD Plays on DVD Players But not on computers- not even mine!

HELP!
I burned a DVD for a client using DVDSP 3 ( i know it's old...but it's what I've got) and the DVD works fine on all the Standard desktop DVD players we've tried them on but when the client put it in her laptop, the computer rejected it. I burned her a new one myself and tried it on MY G5, which burned it (I didn't check the first time to see if it would work on a G5) and my computer rejected it too! I've burned dozens of DVD's before using the same version of DVDSP and haven't had this problem before...
what am I missing? Could it be something in my preferences or something that i forgot to click?
My DVD drive is a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D and reads other dvd's with no problem...

No rhyme or reason... but tried one more time after putting back my old copy of idvd 06 with my oldest themes in it, and I now have DVD's that will play on regular DVD players!
Now, if Apple could just get us a firmware update for the SONY DVD RW DW-U10A which came with my G-5 and then maybe we could all burn disks at the new 16X speed! Instead of limiting our possibilites.
Oh and yes, I did contact Sony about firmware updates. They informed me that this is really an OEM drive (whatever that is) and that Sony does not support it!

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