Install Media Player/DirectX 9 Kills CD Drive?

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CD/DVD drive was working perfectly on WinME system. Upgraded Media Player and
DirectX to version 9. Now the drive will not read a CD, be it music or
program. Auto Insert Notification is still on. The drive appears in Device
Manager w/o conflict but in Explorer, it does not read the disc. When trying
to play a music CD manually, it says there's no disc in the drive. However, it
still plays DVD movies. Suggestions?

Thanks

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>Do you know which upgrade did it specifically since those are two seperate
>updates in Windows?

This is not my PC. It belongs to a friend across the country. The problem has
been fixed by removing Media Player 9 which was my initial guess at the
culprit.