I hate to start a new thread, but I don't have the old emails to reply to. Thank you everyone that replied to my trying to play encrypted DVD's. I tried the suggestion of compiling MPlayer, that worked in getting win32 codecs (bonus) but I still got the errors for the DVD's. Then I found this out: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/~alex/mwn/20021201.txt At the bottom of the page, right before #11 it talks about the problem I was having with them not playing. So I then decided to try ogle like someone else said. Yet suspiciously, it crashed upon loading everytime! It's worked before in the past, so I'm not really quite sure...didn't take the time to investigate. I then tried xine. Compiled from source, and then got the "enhanced" dvd plugin from a link on their site. Works like a charm now, and I couldn't be happier. Now I will put SuSE on my laptop, since there is nothing it can't do that Windows can.