[magnolia1240]

Munsey,

I had this exact same problem myself. I searched and searched, asked many questions, subscribed to seven different bulletin boards and downloaded and installed DVD Player 3.1 about half-a-dozen times before I figured out what the problem was.

Opening your System Profiler and looking at the crash log will tell you much. Then using the Console will tell you even more. It will tell you all about what has been going wrong with your DVD Player. But, it won't tell you how to fix it. I tried a couple of methods.

First, I tried taking the DVD Player files (hidden in the package contents) from my sister's machine and using them in mine. Nope. Didn't work.

Second, I tried fixing priviledges using the Terminal. Nope. Didn't work.

Third, I reinstalled the system software. All of it. Clean installs up and down the board. Started with 10.0. Upgraded then to 10.1.5. Next to 10.2 and finally to 10.2.1 (10.2.2 hadn't arrived yet. That did the trick. I installed so that I created an entirely new System folder. That way it would replace everything and I would still have all my old System files in case something went wrong.

And something did go wrong too! The exact same problem was now occuring for iCal. Since I had upgraded to 10.2 by creating new system folder, I was then able to go in and replace all the new iCal files with all the old ones.

Hope this helps.

Magnolia1240