"curiouslibra" wrote in message ...

I seem to remember there was a setting to reset the player at its
home position. Something like "With the power off, push the tray
to the closed position, then when turning on the power hold down
the CD1 button, the play button, and the eject button at the same
time, and the player would initialize / reset to the home position."

As you have nothing to lose... have you tried it?