DVD quit recognizing anything

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First post, sadly. I have used VLC for years and I love it, however...
I just installed the latest version of VLC on both my laptops and now they both quit plaving DVD's or even recognizing anything put in them. I have Windows XP pro SP3. Videolan 2.0.5, One computer is a Compaq Pentium 4, 2.8 g, with 1 gig ram. and the other is a Itronix Gobook 260+ with a Pentium 3 and 1 gig ram. I have used VLC on both for years with no problem. I tried to play a rented Disney dvd and it wouldn't play, so I downloaded the newer version of VLC into both computers to see if that helped. Now everything quit. My DVD player doesn't work at all on either computer (DVD or CD). No idea why. Tried reinstalling drivers, reinstalling the DVD's, reinstalling VLC over and over. I'm stumped. I got VLC from the VLC website not some third party place. Windows sees the DVD drive and it chugs away forever when I insert anything, but never recognizes it. The computer slows way down too as though it is trying to do something and can't. I usually have to restart it to get it back to normal.

Help, Don

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A further note. I installed Avast virus checker and ran it, but it found nothing. I also ran cc cleaner and still no joy.

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New info. I just reinstalled VLC again and inserted a DVD. I immediately got a message asking if I wanted to send a crash report to VLC and said "Yes". The crash report was sent successfully. Now I have a message that says that no file is associated with the DVD. Hope that helps.

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Further info. VLC does different things each time I insert a disc. Sometimes it recognizes the DVD, starts VLC with a black screen and the cone in the middle, then stops there, Sometimes it recognizes the DVD in My Computer but doesn't do anything else, sometimes it just ignores the disc completely and just runs and runs the DVD player with nothing happening and no recognition of a DVD in the drive. My Itronix Gobook mouse is completely screwed up now too. It jumps all over the screen and only stops sometimes when I push and hold the touch-screen for a while. Sometimes I have to just shut down the computer completely and try to start over. Really frustrating. I was doing nothing else online when this started. I wasn't even connected to the internet.

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A little Help....Anybody....anybody...Hello!?!?