[steve at Your Heaven]

"... I tried saving a .wav file to the desktop, then renaming .pts, then importing to a new track to no avail...."

I missed this before, and maybe this info will help. The audio files should be .wav files (or aif). The ONLY file that is a .pts is the Pro Tools Session file, which is the protools data. So you still might take the wav files you copied from the dvd to the hard drive and (1) try playing them with something simple (Mac os must have a player: on XP, this would be Windows Media player, Winamp, etc) to see if they're ok, and if they are, (2) then bringing them into a new Protools session.

But you should not be having problems with this (unless the person who burned the dvd did something wrong). If this is very new to you, you might want to read some of the manual (look at parts of the File Management/Compatibility and Sessions chapters to start). Be aware that if importing to a new seesion, Protools will only deal with one bit rate/depth, so create a session to import to that is the correct setting (otherwise the session will create new files converted to the session setting, which takes a lot of time and disc space).