I think I am not configuring the CdPlayer correctly. I can get it to the ppoint where it seems that the drive is spinning (as if it is playing) then stops after approx. 45 sec. Any idea how to fix this?

The CD player seems worthless. It won't do anything on the pc's that I tried. However, all it does when it works is spin up the disk and you have to listen with headphones according to the help file. You can do that by pressing the Play button on the front of the drive!
I don't know why they included so many utilities that are useless. What good is an MP3 server when there's no way to load MP3's?