nightmare scenario

Hi

My hair has fallen out..... this is my story.

I have a 17"powerbook, and a G4 AGP 400 Powermac. I was excited I could create DVD's on my power book so I used IDVD, ..made a dvd with my show reel on a dvd-r. I tested it my powerbook work's fine , tested it on my dvd player works fine, I put it in my powermac, it gets rejected, and ejects, with no error sign..just ejects :(. I burned a cd-r on my powerbook,....power mac has a problem reading it.. I get frustrated, and call apple they tell me its my cd's, and recomend apple dvd-r, so I bought some....and I get the same problem. I search threw apple knowledgebase, and found an article, which I though may help...some unix involved in terminal window (for my powermac),... It screw up my whole system, I call apple tell them about it. I also went to an electrical store and tested my dvd's on various player including a pc and it worked. Basically my CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, and my external CD-RW, have problem reading any disc from my powerbook, it doesnt even give the dvd-r's a chance.BTW I also tried toast, and normal dvd's work, including cd-r buned on the powermac.
Apple say this is new to them and they haven't heard of this before, cos the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM on the powermac should read them, so they are going to look into it and get back to me. This problem occurs on os 9.2.2, and 10.2.6.

Know Im left with having to pick out my stuff from a previous system folder, and try and put all back together again, I cant even check my email, my address book, my software licenses, my network config using net info, my various account i had for differerent projects, etc,etc,etc

I want to cry :(((((((((((

One other suggestion is to post in the DVD forum and see if Noah, Ralph, Tyler or Dr. James have any suggestions better than mine. I know Noah does a lot of work on Mac?s.

Tony!