Powerbook 12" g4 max ram; newly installed leopard won't play movies

DVD movies working perfectly until Leopard is installed...now the movies crash the system. The dvd installing discs work fine though.

There was a Graphics update from Apple. While it might have fixed something, it has broken the DVD player in 12" G4s. A solution until Mac send out a patch for their patch, is to install a free DVD playing application called VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Once installed and you have set it as the default DVD player in preferences, you will once again be able to play DVDs.
Branwell

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+Over time, the settings in the Power Manager may become unusable, which can result in operational anomalies with the computer. Examples include not turning on, not waking from sleep, not charging the battery, or not seeing the AC Adapter, among others.+
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