Thank you for your time, effort and help Zorlon!

Atleast I know now its just a compatibility issue rather than anything else.

Hopefully this issue won't crop up with too many other games.

I guess I'll chalk it up to experience and throw all but one dvd away incase I'm ever in possession of another ps2 model

Yeah out of both of them which do you recommend I've got a wii at home but I do like the xbox I don't know if its worth buying and also getting the component cables for it I read it's pretty rare to find genuine ones.