DVD Player 4.6.5 does not recognize external DVD drive

I had to get an external DVD drive (Sony DRX-S70U) for my Intel iMac after the built in one crapped out. I just put in a DVD and when DVD Player 4.6.5 opens it says "There was an initialization error - A valid DVD drive could not be found. [-70012]"
But the DVD appears on the Desktop. So it knows its there, just DVD Player won't work. Is there any way to change the preferences or anything so that DVD Player will work? I know I can download a 3rd party software, but I'd like to use the Mac stuff if possible.
Thanks!

Try this.. Read the NOTE in 10. FIRST.
1. Create a New User: Sign in as New User.
2. Dbl Click HD Icon, locate User Icon. This will show your orig user and the new user acct.
3. Click the New User.
4. Locate the Library Icon and open it.
5. Locate Applications Folder, open it.
6. Locate DVD player folder. Open it there are 2 folders. (this is good). Red X Close
7. Use the EDIT from top menu bar. Make Duplicate, this copies the folder without the 'copy' name on the file. "DVD player" is what you want. Otherwise wont work.
8. Paste it to your desktop.
9. Close the New User folder. This drops you back to Users folder.
10. Open the original user acct. **NOTE, at this point you may begin to see little red dots on the folders. When you see them, Click on the LIB folder, then use the "GET INFO" command to show the status of the permissions. Click the DETAIL tab, and click the yellow lock next to OWNER. Change ownership to read as your orig acct. Change permissions to READ AND WRITE. Group: Staff (it worked for me). Click APPLY TO ENCLOSED ITEMS, click the yellow lock. Check the info before closing the menu. You may have to repeat this as you delve deeper.
11. Dbl click LIB, then Application Support. Then paste or drag the DVD player folder in.
12. Close out all windows, LOG off as new user.. Log on as Orig user.
13. Dbl click HD icon, Applications Icon, find DVD player Dbl click that. It should work.
Thanks to all the input from the Discussions that allowed me to solve this problem.
iMac FlatScreen 17in G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   760 ram

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