Is there any way to change the disc drive region after the 5th time?

I wasn't aware that you can only change the drive region 5 times before it becomes permanent. So now mine is set for region 2 (Europe), and all but 1 of my DVD's are region 1 (North America). Is there any way at all to undo the 'permanent' region setting now?

I don't think so.  You can search in the wild and untamed Internet if there are hacks.  I seem to recall coming across some years ago, but those may have been for PCs and resetting device firmware.  The danger is if something foes wrong then the drive is totally dead. www.xlr8yourmac.com/ might be a good place for a Mac.
Some ideas (I have no idea if they will get around the issue for sure):
Try playing with VLC media player. VLC media player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - general media player that plays just about anything.
Try buying an external DVD drive.

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