MediaSmart DVD and Blu Rays

Hi.  I know this question has been asked before (because I've read it in a bunch of other posts) but I'm still having a problem.
My Blu Ray player was working just fine (I just watched UP about a month ago) until I bought the new Harry Potter movie.  When I put it in the player, everything went to hell.  It says "content is protected" and something about not being able to play in this display type.  And now my other Blu Rays won't play either
So - I've already gone through the basics....I've used Revo Uninstaller to completely remove the old version of MediaSmart DVD.  I've downloaded several different versions of MediaSmart and installed them (while being sure to restart a hundred times in between installations and making sure I've completely removed the old ones)  I've turned off Norton 360 and Windows Firewall while installing them.  And still none of my Blu Rays will play.
Please please help me.  I have a HP Pavillion DV7 3065DX running Windows 7.  I don't do anything too fancy on the computer except play on the internet and use Itunes (and watch movies....well....used to)  If you can fix this, I will name my second child after you....

That sucks, but at least your itunes are back. I don't have anything else, sorry. Except Nuke and Pave.
  Do a system restore and use David's method to install the latest Media Smart.
After that it should work, start installing your programs in one at a time to see what is interfering with the Blu-ray player.
 You could also try installing a trial version of Cyberlinks Power DVD 11 before doing a system restore, but unfortunately that's not free.
Personally I have had problems with Media Smart too, and I do have Power DVD 8. I will eventually update to Power 11.
 The frustrating thing about this is that my Media Smart plays Harry Potter, something is blocking the playback of Blu-ray's and it's like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.
 The people who manufacture the format do there very best to put all sorts of copy protection protocols on the disc's. I found it gets to the point where the things won't even play. Finding what is interfering is a big challenge.
 The other thing that would probably work too is running SlySoft's Any DVD HD, that removes all the copy protection stuff, and that's not free either, but it does work.
 http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html
 It's not HP really. Others like Sony, Acer, Toshiba etc are all in the same boat.
 Check this thread out, it doesn't look good for lessien either.
 http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Display-and-Video/DV7-3165dx-will-not-play-blu-ray/m-p/698379#...
 His drive letters are all screwed up, but when I duplicated his situation, my player still worked. Windows doesn't even see the Blu-ray drive at all in his case.
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 Pending on an answer I am waiting for there may be a newer driver direct from AMD that may work, it's dated 2011, where as the one from HP is from 2009.
 There is a good chance that this will solve your problem, but I want to be sure that it will work.

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