DVD Player not Working on OSX

Hi,
I just received an iBook G3 with OSX on it from my old boss. Everything works great except the DVD player. It is on the toolbar at the bottom but is 'greyed out' so I can't click on it. If I do, the icon gets a question mark over it.
When I looked in my hard drive, I saw that the DVD player is in OS 9.2- and the "Apple DVD Player" is greyed out there too. There is no DVD player in OSX in the hard drive.
The drive itself works- it plays cds, and recognizes the DVD (it appears on the desktop with it's correct title, etc.)I have tried several DVD's and it's the same with all of them.
I am a PC person as is everyone I know who knows computers so I'm completely at a loss. Thanks for your help!

I've checked out Pacifist, and it opens the packages just fine, they're all there, except of course, for DVD Player...I've looked at all three of my installation discs, and it's just not there. So now what can I do? I finally got a Dual Layer DVD drive, and I can't watch DVD's, InterActive's player worked for a day...now it won't run, even after reinstalling it.
If I can't install DVD player from the discs, and third party software isn't working, what should I do?

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