Strange cd/dvd audio problem

Here goes. I have an M105-s3004. When I put a cd in the drive and play it, I get poping and crackling sounds mixed in with the music. If I play a dvd, the same.
Now, if I copy either the cd or dvd to my hard drive, and play from there, it plays fine. Also, if I shut the computer down and use the cd/dvd drive and the Toshiba Media Player (without booting the computer) both cd's and dvd's play fine.
So, the only time I have problems is when paying with the computer booted and playing directly from the drive. By the way, I have tried numerous player programs and they all do the same.
Anyone have any ideas??
Thanks
Mike

I confirmed that it's either a QT 7.2 issue, or OS 10.4.10 issue (guess which I think is more likely :-)).
I moved the iMovie to my wife's macbook, who thankfully usually hits cancel when the software update screen appears so it was still on 7.1.6 and OS 10.4.9. The movie exported fine. Not a great test, since I was changing processor types, iMovie versions, and OS versions, but it did work. Then I upgraded her to 7.2 and 10.4.10 (in retrospect, should have just done 7.2 to only change one thing, oh well), did the exact same export procedure, and the audio was corrupted the exact way that my computer broke it.
So it's in one of those components for sure. I opened a bug, #5345205, for what it's worth. Hopefully they'll be able to replicate somehow and issue a fix. too bad there's no easy way to rollback an update.

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