ESXi 4.0 not booting off DVD ISO or Host CD/DVD Device with DVD's

I had some problems with booting off DVD iso's on nfs shares and DVD's in the Host system CD/DVD reader (which, incidentally is a SATA device, also problematic with ESXi according to some forums I've read). But I was able to get it to boot off the DVD media by burning the DVD iso to a physical disk and placing the disk in my client system DVD reader. Then, I set the boot options to delay by 5000ms, set the boot order in the VM's bios as removable,network,cdrom,hard drive, and then i started the vm. while it was sitting there trying to boot off the network, i used the little CD button above the vm console window to connect my local DVD drive to the vm through the VI4 client. This worked, it was slow but it worked and I was so happy!