Internal DVD - swapped harddrives - won't play normally

And this is probably my fault - but here we go:-
I just obtained a iMac DV 400 ( OS10.1 as I had to erase the HD for the person who gave it to me to make sure none of her stuff was left on it)) - internal DVD ROM verified in profiler - but I thought I'd swap a 40GB harddrive (from an Indigo 500 CD-ROM) onto the new Imac DV so my 13 yr old daughter could keep her files and creations etc - as well as her 10.3.9 which came on the Indigo 500CD-ROM when we purchased it - AND still play DVD's.
Now when I originally inserted a DVD - "Five children & It" - onto the iMac DV withit's original !OGB HD the DVD app. came up and played the DVD most admirably.
Now after the swap - when I inserted the DVD I just got contents window - so I copied the DVD player app from the original 10GB HD, and transferred a copy, via THUMBDRIVE, to the IMac's now 40GB HD, and stillonly got a contents window.
But if I pressed on one of the items in the contents window, the DVD actualy ran - albeit slightly jerkily.
But it's not the perfect solution - what am I missing to make the DVD player work properly when I load a DVD.
OH another clue - when I double clicked the transferred DVD Player icon on the newly implanted 40GB - it would sort of leap up as oif it were going to do something but then nothing came of it - the app didn't run.
HOpe I've given you all enough info to start with.
ciao
Gregg
PS good to see some familiar faces on this area of the discussions forum.

Hi Don - thanks for your input. Yeah - I notices the VLC software alrady in my application folder and did try it - but I had to go up a notch in version.
Anyway - before I got any response I just re-swapped (is that a word) the harddrives and it all went fine - I'll jsut transfer her stuff by thumbdrive, which I should have done in the first place but I wanted to put in larger capacity HD. Never mind - 10 GB will do for now. I'll bring that machine up to Jaguar 10.2.8 then soon to Panther ( when I go get a copy from a mac dealer who happens to have a few left- here in Perth Australia that is).
Now I'll go post a new question - I'm haven't got GarageBand and I don't even know if one can use it to splice two tracks together or even make an mp3 out of part of a musical track and 'manipulate it in some way - so I'll be looking for a 'free' software that can do that if I can find one.
Thanks again for your participation - it's always good when people offer a few wrokarounds even if they don't know the 'perfect' answer.
ciao
Gregg :

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