Enable playing of commercial DVDs (after reinstall, openSUSE 11, 4:4)

After trying to play a DVD I legally own, I was directed by my media player to openSUSE's DVD Playing info . From here, followed link to a website to install xine (all codecs enabled) via the

• one click install. Finally needed to
  
• install DeCSS library -- this link was helpful. Ended up
  
• using the bash script here, run in a terminal window. Before it would run I had to make sure that I
  
• changed permissions on the script, allowing execution, had to
• make sure all dependencies listed in the comment block at the top of this script were installed, then had to
  
• install GCC and GCC-Fortran with YaST when the script failed for lack of them.

Shell script finally ran, and exited with a message that seemed to imply that the install wasn't successful, but when I tried to play my DVD, it worked. :)