Leopard installed, DVD now freezes and stalls within seconds

I have a G5 1.8ghz with 1.25GB of ram. The DVD player starts, but freezes after a few seconds of disjointed video playback. Audio continues, but the pointer turns into a permanent 'swirl' and the computer hangs. I can't then stop the player or eject the disk.The only thing I can do to regain control is switch it off at the wall. I tried deleting the DVD folder under Library settings as suggested by another user, but the system just re-creates it and the problem continues. HELP PLEASE?

I first posted this question two days ago. Meanwhile, I left the machine plugged in and stashed in the corner. Last night, as I was about to go to bed, I noticed the "sleep" behavior coming from my TiBook - the brightening and fading of the apple light on the cover!
I opened the lid and viola - it was running, my mouse worked, the menus worked, I could close it down or restart it as normal, I could change between OS9 and OXS like before - in short, it was back to normal.
So I now have the answer to "what to do?" Just leave it plugged in for a few days.

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