Interesting... I borrowed my fiancee's portable DVD player. I played the coaster i burned last night that skipped all over in my standalone player. So i played varsity blues and it played fine! Even the spots where it was pixalated it wasnt on her player!

She has a Mintek DVD-1710

Weird. Does this sound like the player then? BEcause i never wanted to rule the player out since i bring my burnt dvd's to my friends house and it does the same thing. But come to think about it they all have old players.