System error -69902 when using DVD Player

Same problem with my intel mac mini. Worked fine for several months, then wham--two netflix DVD's in a row with some warning about skipping bad sections of the disk and -69902 error when I try to use the controls. Need to quit DVD player to eject the disc as the player software becomes unresponsive, Front Row does NOT work for me either but has for some. Only way to keep doing movie night on the plasma is to play the disc with VLC. Read on a Mac-Fixit forum ( http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Board=Forum32&Number=842283) that it's very likely a Leopard-DVD player problem since things work under Tiger but not Leopard on the same computer. Well, that's better than a hardware problem at least, but I think only Apple can fix this for good.

Hey Apple, add one more bug to the punch list and get it knocked off before there's further damage to your good reputation. Don't forget about Time Machine and Airport bugs, I get those too. The stuff in Leopard that actually works reliably is very good, I must say, but I'm not sure it's been worth the hassles compared with the solid, mature Tiger version.--cross fingers for imminent release of 10.5.2 with lots of bug fixes--

same thing here official dvd getting -69902 with the dvd player but works in front row(never even knew i had front row, until trying to figure out how to play it). it was a little scratchy, but played fine all the way through. i opened it in toast just to see what it would say and it said the dvd contained 22 unsupported files. i went through the boxset and they were all the same thing, each disk was unsupported and it would open dvd player and it would go to the menu but you couldn't use the menu functions(start, stop, subtitles). and just to say again, these were not burned, these were a criterion collection box set. all ready tried to repair permissions, all i get is that bullsh*t line of all the SUID's that aren't getting repaired. and i don't have diskwarrior because the site says it isn't recommended with leopard.

Yes, count me in, as one of those people suffering from the same symptons, Error -69902, with skipping damaged sections etc. Very very annoying, making me regret A) upgrading to Leopard, B) Getting rid of a proper DVD player.

Is this the way how Apple promote iTunes movie rentals over DVDs by making the DVD player buggy!