DVD in OSX

OK, I'll try to give all the details. I have PB G3 400 Bronze with 10 gig HD. It came with CD-ROM. I partitioned the hard to two 5 gig partitions and installed OS 10.2.8 and 9.2.2. I then purchased a Lite-On Combo drive (LSC-24081M) and installed it to play DVD's. It shows up in Apple System Profiler and says 'fully supported'. I can play dvd's fine in OS9 using Apple DVD Player (v1.3). I since have run across (in this forum) Pacifist v1.6.3 and extracted and installed the OSX DVD Player v3.2 Now when i open that player (OSX DVD v3.2) i get the following error message
"DVD Player encountered serious error. The current machine or system configuration is not supported (-70013)." Is it possible to make this work. By the way i cannot boot from this drive (don't know why, maybe somebody can tell me that too). I tried installing my old CD-ROM but it does not work (won't read CD's). So here's the bottom line can i make OSX DVD work or do have to continue to use OS9? And as side note, what if i have to boot from a CD, what are my options there?
Any help would be appreciated. Thx Dave

Hi, David. Some optical drives are bootable and others aren't; apparently yours is in the latter category. If you need to boot from a CD with such a drive, you can't — period. For me, that would be ample reason to return the Lite-On drive and exchange it for one that's bootable, since the inability to boot to a CD to troubleshoot or perform hard disk directory repairs would be entirely unacceptable. To identify a drive mechanism that is bootable in your Bronze, check the Drive Compatibility Database at http://www.xlr8yourmac.com. Unfortunately, a lot of the models you'll find mentioned are probably discontinued now. Most optical drives being offered nowadays have advanced capabilities that your G3's old hardware probably can't support, so you were wise to buy one that had only modest abilities — it just proved not to be the right one.
FWIW, all or most drives show up as "supported" in System Profiler. Unfortunately, that means nothing.

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