Watching Home Movies in 10.5

I made some home movies on my Macbook in Tiger with iMovie 6 but found they won't play now on the same computer with Leopard. They were burned to memorex DVD-R discs if that makes any difference. Whenever I put one in the Superdrive spins for about 30 seconds and then spits it out (it never shows up on the desktop.) They play fine on my DVD player. I couldn't find the same exact problem posted (at least recently). Any help would be appreciated.

I used Memorex DVD-R's to make them, if that makes a difference. At this point, I really don't care if they play on the computer but i would like to pull the movies off the discs and back to one of my hard drives. The problem is, even with the preferences set for the computer to ignore the DVD after it's inserted, it still spits it out after about 15 seconds. Any help would be appreciated.

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