Apple DVD Player installers won't recognize Lacie d2 16x4x12x

Greetings :
My eMac has a CDR internal drive only.
I just upgraded to Panther (upgrade disks) and I'm running 10.3.9.
I'm trying to get the Apple installers to recognize the Lacie d2 I just got, so that I can install the Apple DVD player (software update?) or import a DVD player from another machine.
The software won't install because it says it can't detect a proper drive, and the player I imported won't open for the same reason. I tried using Patchburn, Pacifist and the installed Installer on my eMac to no avail.
Here's what my system profiler says about the d2 : : :
FireWire Bus:
Speed: 400 Mb/sec Speed
LaCie 1394 DVD-R/RW+CD drive LUN 0:
Manufacturer: LaCie Group SA
Model: > LaCie 1394 DVD-R/RW+CD drive LUN 0
Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-RW
Disc Burning: Vendor Supported
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: Yes
Speed: 400 Mb/sec Speed
Unit Spec Id: 24734
Unit Software Version: 10483
Firmware Revision: 2.07
I believe the Lacie d2 I just got is the previous generation,
no lightscribe. It works great (plug an play) for burning data but I'd really like to use the native Apple DVD player to watch DVD video with the drive. I downloaded the free/open source VLC media player and it seems to work well enough,
but I'm on a mission to use Apple software if possible.
I'm also thinking of upgrading to Tiger soon so I'm wondering if I'll have any corresponding issues there.
Oh, and I did download and install the latest driver was from the Lacie site.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
pauly B ;D
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.9) 700 MHz / 384 MB / 40gig / CDR internal

BTW: here is the fix in case anyone needs it
Follow it exactly, it works !
1. Download and install Pacifist.
2. Insert Mac OS 10.3 CD in drive.
3. Select Open Mac OS X Install Packages button in Pacifist. It will ask you to swap out all three 10.3 install disks.
4. Click the Find button and type "DVD". A long list should show up.
5. The important files/folders to replace are:
-AppleAltiVecDVDDriver.bundle
-ATIRadeon8500DVDDriver (if graphics card is installed)
-ATIRadeon9700DVDDriver (if graphics card is installed)
-ATIRadeonDVDDriver.bundle
-ATIRage128DVDDriver.bundle (if graphics card is installed)
-DVDPlayback.framework
-DVD.framework
-rtadvd
**There are many duplicates of the files/folders above in other languages. I only chose to install English.
6. Select each or all and click Install.
7. Choose to replace all existing files.
8. Restart. Repair permissions.
I didn't bother to try to install only the English versions...just installed and replaced all the items on tha list
;D

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