Unable to read DVDs in 10.3.9

I have Mac OS 10.3.9 and seem to be unable to read most DVDs, at least any commercial movie DVDs I have, even some I played before, I guess under 10.2!
The file system will not mount them. When I insert them, I receive a message that Mac OS X is unable to read any volumes and have the option to Ignore or Cancel.
I click Ignore and look at them with Disk Utility and it says the IO Content is DOSFAT16.
I am able to read the Mac OS X system DVDs.
How do I read these movie DVDs?

Recently I bought a DVD burner and popped it in my 10.3.9 machine, and (after installing Patchburn) it read DVDs just fine. Whatever's going on, it's not an OS issue. If it was, can you imagine the how much noise there would be about it? Again, there have been a few posts on the forums about it, but that tells us all something -- this is an isolated issue and not a general OS issue.
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