DVD,s won't mount after updates

I recently bought a G5 1.6gig, 1.25 gig ram.
I got it a couple of days ago. DVD's were fine on it with Tiger, no updates installed. I then installed leopard on a new had drive I installed, seagate 320gig and did all the updates for tiger and leopard. I can play/import cd's to may machine but now it will not mount DVD's. It will read the leopard install DVD and commercial dvd's but will not read any I have burnt myself on different machines......any ideas?
Thx

I'm sorry but I can't answer this question.. All I can say is that a lot of people on this forum are experiencing the same problem. Sadly, I'm out of support and can't get apple to even discuss this with me. My DVD read blanks no problem until I installed the latest iTunes and added an iPhone. Now I'm having the exact same problem as you. This is driving me mad as I know it's not hardware and must be something to do with one of apple's flakey updates.. Do you have support on your G5?

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