DVDs and Zips not readable

Recently some zip discs have been opening a window that tells me that they are unreadable by this computer, now I have gotten that message with all movie DVDs that I had been playing sucessfully in the past. This is happening on both of my computers the other being an ibook. The DVDs still play on my television player. The computers can still recognize software DVDs and audio CDs.
Power Mac G4 dual   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Sounds like a system issue, I have this happen from time to time and usually maintaince (Onyx, repair permissions etc.) straightens it out, will also usually run Diskwarrior on the Hard Drives (or Zips) It is strange that both computers have this at the same time, I would say check the cord, but that should not be affecting all the DVDs also.
So it sounds like a software/prefs issue.
Try creating a new user account and see if that helps. (Have you done any rcent software updates or OS?)

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