I tried the patch and followed the sites instructions for DVD player 2.7 which no longer says my computer doesn't support the DVD player. It instead gave a message "Apple DVD player can not find software it needs".

So I thought that since the OS on this HD is one that the original owner installed and may have modified that I'd do a clean install on another HD and see if I got different results. Which I did. Now when trying to boot DVD player 2.7 I get a message "The Apple DVD Player can not open because the Apple CD/DVD extension is not installed" Unfortunately it is but I tried booting an OS9.2.2 machine and copying it's extension. Still no luck.