Where has my DVD Player Software gone

Folks, little trouble:
A few months ago, I bought this new MacBook Pro (2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo). The biggest change that I noted, compared to my old G4 Powerbook: My DVD Player Software is GONE.
Ok, it's not that much trouble, I use the VLC to open my dvds, but I'm still wondering: What has happened. When I try to download the dvd player software from the apple support page, the installer says that the programme cannot be installed, because there's already a newer version. But believe me, there isn't.
The hints from the help-application of os x didn't really give me a clou...

The DVD Player should be in your Application Folder?
Go to: "Apple / System Preferences / CDs & DVDs" you see the 5 "When you insert a." Go to the last one "When you insert a video DVD" and select "Open DVD Player" then insert a DVD to see if DVD player opens.
If you do a Spotlight search for DVD Player, you should see it as:
Top Hit (DVD Player)
Application (DVD Player)
System Preference (CDs & DVDs)
Doc (com.apple.DVDPlayer.plist)
1 or 2 Images (com.apple.DVDPlayer.tiff)
If you park the mouse pointer on each one you will see the path to it and it's location. Maybe you moved the Doc .plist or Image .tiff? Let us know what you find?
Also a good idea to repair disk permissions, look half way down this article:
"Repair Disk Permissions"

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