G3 iBook speaker/audio problem

Hi!
Just got a DVD drive installed in my iBook, having some sound problems. I've been getting a general static-y noise whenever a flash animation plays over the web, but otherwise my speakers have sounded fine when playing mpegs, wmvs, what-have-you. But when I play a DVD in the drive, there's some major static whenever there's any sound, but only on retail DVDs. I've got several episodes of Sifl and Olly that I put onto a DVD that plays just fine, but pop in one of my store-bought Firefly DVDs, and the sound is all static-y. It's almost as if the DVD puts out TOO MUCH sound and it's too much for the speakers, but lowering the volume and fiddling with DVD player's audio equalizer don't help at all. I know it's not the speakers themselves, since iTunes downloads and videos in quicktime and Windows Media Player don't have the distortion, no matter how loud I crank them.
The best way to describe the noise is that it sounds like I'm playing a stereo on blown-out speakers, but as I said, the speakers themselves don't seem to be a problem. In fact, the problem persists even when using high-quality headphones. Has anyone else experienced this or know of any solutions? I'd prefer to be able to watch DVDs on my new DVD player without it being a trial of annoyance.
Thanks in advance!!
-Ben

Well, I installed it myself, and I know everything went back together exactly the way it should have, since I'm super careful with my electronics. It's not a crisis. The computer still works, I can still get the info I need off of data cds and dvds, and I don't actually watch DVDs on the computer that often anyway (granted, part of that IS due to the static). I'll just live with it until I've got the extra cash to throw at a new drive.

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