Where is DVD Player?

Spotlight can't find it, nor can I by the crude method of looking in Applications, and it isn't offered as an option in the CDs and DVDs Preference Pane. Yet when I try to install the downloaded .dmg from Apple, it refuses because "the version installed is newer than this one".
So, where is that version? OR Where can I get an installable one, as it doesn't seem to be in the bundled software on the install disks?

Thanks BD, but it is not in Applications, or anywhere Spotlight has indexed. Yes, to maintenance. I use MainMenu and ran it last weekend. Nothing untoward then or since.
The Apple download you cited is an updater, the one that gave me the "can't install because the version on your disk is newer" message. If Spotlight can't find any DVDPlayer, howcum the Installer not only can but knows what version it is?
Amazingly, using Pacifist on the Install Disk that 'mysteriously invisible' DVDPlayer has now been 'replaced' w/o so much as a "You already have a file named DVDPlayer, are you sure…?" The ways of Apple are mysterious indeed.
Thanks BD.

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