New to the MAC world - can you suggest a new drive for my G4?

Hi, I'm a newcomer to the MAC world after using Windows for years. I'd long wanted to make the switch and now my chance has come I'm absolutely delighted.
At the moment I'm still finding my way around but I already have an idea about upgrade choices and the first is to replace the Hitachi GD-7000 DVD-ROM drive. It appears to be unable to read at least one commercial DVD and has problems with some data CDR/RW's from my collection (the same discs work fine in numerous standalone players and other DVD drives).
Although I live in a "region 2 zone", I buy lots of region 1 films via Amazon and out of 7 discs tried using VLC only one worked (they all work on my PC's) - is this because of regional coding issues such as RCE or rather the Hitachi's age?
I realise that ultimately the drive will have to be replaced and I would appreciate it if you could please offer suggestions on suitable drives.
Thanks,
Jay
PowerMac AGP Sawtooth Mac OS X (10.3.9) 512MB RAM Dell 17" Monitor
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Thanks a lot for all the feedback, I've visited the links that you posted for me to check out and tomorrow I'm going to buy the Pioneer DVR-110D. As Malcolm stated, it can be picked up very cheaply (£23!)
http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/productinfo.php?cPath=10_34&productsid=567&osCsid=5032a3a66dd48b74203e6699d03a3fbd
Thanks again,
Jay

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