IBook G3 from eBay.....DVD player???

Hello all, I got my girlfriend a 2003 iBook G3 dual USB from eBay and it's in nice condition and clean installed however it doesn't read dvds nor does it have Apple DVD player. I tried putting the DVD player on but it didn't open. On the ebay site it didn't specifically say DVD player. I have a 2002 iBook and it has a DVD player and CD writer. My understanding is that all these could at least play DVD's, and as far as writing a CD that was just a matter of having a combo drive or super drive. Did Apple make non DVD reading iBooks during this time??? It picks up normal audio CD's.
Thanks for the help guys!
Charles

Yes, some 800 MHz iBooks were CD-ROM only.
http://support.apple.com/specs/ibook/iBookEarly2003.html

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