How to find/install dvd player?

G4, 10.5.8. Stupidly downloaded a disk cloner from web and wiped out a fair amount of my applications including dvd player. I had backed-up with TM but after restarting from the 10.5 install disk withy TM running I didn't see restore as an option. So I reinstalled iLife from the disk and updated iTunes, found a driver for my HP printer etc. But DVD player is gone and the downloads I tried from Apple always give an error message and quit when I launch them after installation. Any ideas apart from a complete reinstall of 10.5.8?

Thanks for the help. I misread the instructions on Pacifist at first, couldn't get it to work on the update pkg and decided to simply install the combined upgrade. Took a long time, hung up at the end, worrsiome moments when I finally had to power off, but all was well. However, DVD player still gave an error message.
Then inserted the 10.5 install disk and used Pacifist to extract the DVD Player and replace the defective copy. Now it works, so it appears that the update package, unlike the install disk, simply contains a DVD player that is defective.
All is well now, more or less, except a few hours wasted.
Many thanks for the advice

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