DVD will play in standalone DVD player but NOT on computer

Hi all,
I created an iDVD project and burned an image to an external drive. I then burned the .img file to DVD-R disks.
They will not play on my computer, but *will play* on my standalone DVD player. In fact they won't even mount. The burned disks are auto ejected after trying to mount.
I tested other DVD's and they mount and play fine.
Since the disks, there are 4 of them, won't mount on the computer but will play on the standalone DVD player, I think the problem lies in the "finishing" of the DVD-R. Eventhough I took the time and verified each disk after the burn.
Any help would be appreciated.
Pale

Curiouser and Curiouser.
The next possibility is a problem with your own particular installation of 10.6.2 then, palefox. How did you update to it? Using Software Update or a "Combo" or "Delta" update? Any particular third party "haxies" or system extensions installed that may not be playing nicely with the latest upgrade? It would be interesting to see what happens if you create a completely "clean" copy of 10.6.2 on an external and see if it will read when booted from that? This would eliminate the possibility of third party conflicts.
I'm guessing that you have already tried the 'standard" things (like booting from one of your bootable clones of Snow Leopard and running Disk Utility to repair the drive and permissions on the internal).
If not, then give it a go. If that doesn't fix it, try downloading the (huge, I'm afraid) Combo update from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959 and installing it over the top of your current system.
If that still doesn't resolve it then an archive and install would seem to be the next cab on the rank!
Cheers
Rod

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