Leopard faulty CD

Hi all
I just received my Leopard OS X 10.5 disk today and it has failed 3 times at the verify DVD stage.
The DVD drive has been used successfully recently so I don't think the system is at fault.
I have a call in with Apple but it seems they are still catching up with what to do with Leopard calls and they are going to call back.
Any other faulty disks out there?
Cheers
Craig

being a long time mac user - when ever this has happened - 99.9% of the time this indicates "bad ram or a bad DVD/CD drive" in the computer. NOTE: many many times I've had a "bad DVD" on one computer and another computer uses it just fine (for example I had a powerbook that claimed the DVD was bad - but when using the same DVD from another computer to installed onto the powerbook via firewire target mode it worked flawlessly).
It's not uncommon for new OS installs to flush out latent problems with existing hardware. Without a careful diagnosis what appears to be a software fault or a data corruption fault can actually indicate a hardware fault.

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