What's with the GNOME CD player?

[MR ZenWiz]

I have two DVD burners in my system, which is running Maverick with GNOME 2.32.

Way back in the dark ages (about 3 months ago) when I was running
CentOS 5.5 and GNOME 2.16, I could tell the CD player which drive to
use and it would always recognize when I put a CD in that drive, read
the proper CDDB info and show it, for most CDs I own.  There were a
few personal recordings that came up with really bizarre names, but
that's an aside.

Now I put a CD in drive 1, the CD player comes up and fails to read
the CD.  If I open drive 1 and move the CD to drive 0, then,
miraculously, CD player will read it and sometimes recognize what the
tracks are.  (I'm talking about commercially recorded, purchased CDs
here.)  Then when I extract the tracks, they land in approximately the
right place.

But if I closed drive 1 and put a different CD in drive 0, it goes
through the same BS as above, except this time it knows there's a CD
in drive 0 but it's trying to read it from drive 1.  If I leave drive
1 open, it seems to have less trouble recognizing the CD in drive 0,
reading it, ripping, etc. (except it still doesn't get the titles
right).

So I'm wondering:

1. What happened to the configuration file for the GNOME CD player for
2.32?  It either doesn't work or is ignored or got moved to ???

2. Does the CD player normally get confused when there are more than
one CD/DVD drive in the system (and why)?

3. What's with the mistakes with CDDB?  E.g., I have Stravinsky's
Firebird Suite, which it not only recognized but had Stravinsky's full
name in Cyrillic letters, but when I put in Mannheim Steamroller's
Christmas album, it blanked on the artist and tracks, and like with
Peter Cetera's Solitude Solitaire.

Mystifying....