Dude Smithy wrote:
> However Menno, you hit on something. I'm about 90% certian I had
> tried logged in as root without success. However, just for fun I
> tried again this evening and was able to play the audio CD as root.

Try opening up the permissions on your cd device; so if it's /dev/hdb:

chmod a+rw /dev/hdb

I'm not saying you should _have_ to do this (you shouldn't), but just to
see if it works...