Problems with a Hitachi GD-5000 DVD-Rom drive

Audiofight

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I have installed this drive.

Posts fine, detects in WinXP fine. Put in a cd, installs fine. Put in a DVD, detects and asks what software to use with this action. I have tried to play multiple DVDs in the drive this afternoon using a variety of software: Windows Media Player 8 & 9 (upgraded to test), WinDVD, and InterActual Player that came on the Swordfish DVD.

I can open My Computer and explore dvds without a hitch as well. It just will NOT play a movie without generating an error report and closing down the program. It happens the same way every time, regardless of which DVD I am trying to play and regardless of which player I try to use.

Any suggestions?

System specs if needed:

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Athlon 1800+ (@ 11.5 x 166 = 1916 MHz)
512 MB Corsair TwinX PC3200 (@ 166, sync)
Asus V9280TD 128MB GeForce4 Ti4200 (@ 300/600)
Western Digital 80.0 GB Special Edition
Hitachi GD-5000 DVD-Rom
Optorite 40x12x40x
Zip100
Antec SX830 case w/ 450W Antec Smart Power psu
Watercooled system | case temp @ 29, cpu temp @ 34