A105-S4384 DVD drive not recognized after replacement.

I've seen the posts about deleting the filters from the registry on upgrade to Vista.  That doesn't help my case.
I replaced the stock Mat**bleep**a drive when it stopped reading any type of disc.  The replacement is a Toshiba TS-L632, which was sold as a compatible drive. 
What I see is that in the BIOS, the drive is not recognized as Optical Drive, but on the Boot tab, the drive DOES show up as a boot option "TSST-L632H-..."
I do not see a CD/DVD drive option at all in the Windows Hardware Manager (ie. it isn't a matter of seeing an exclamation mark over the drive... it isn't there at all).
If I insert a disc, I hear the drive rev up and spin, but nada afterwards.  There is no light active on the drive.  Trying to install the L632's firmware is no good, as the installer just pops up a dialogue with "Drive not found!!" message.
I'm at wit's end.  The Toshiba site isn't helpful in confirming the compatibility of the drive, but you'd hope that if they make laptops and laptop drives, they'd be compatible.

Although the drive shows up in the boot menu, can you actually boot from it?
Some Toshiba laptops needed the drives to be in CS (cable select) mode in order for them to function properly with the laptop. This can be done on an after-market drive by shorting two pins on the connector (and I have done it before, so it does work), but that may or may not be the problem. But the computer I had to do it to was quite a bit older than yours (M10-something).

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