What was happening was in Device Manager the DVD drive was showing up but the drivers weren't being loaded...so I re-booted and hit F8 and told it to skip the driver signing..then the DVD didn't show up at all in Device Manager...so the next time I attacked the registry and deleted the “UpperFilter†and “LowerFilter" keys from the registry....and now things seem to be working fine...so far
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