I guess I could create a new topic but I don't want to be accused of spamming the list.

I have had some slight progress-I think..

This is my fstab entry for the dvd/cdrom device:
# Added by JY 11-23-04
/dev/scd0 /mnt/hfs defaults,ro,noauto,users,noexec 0 0

and this is the terminal output:
root@ixan:~# hmount /dev/scd0
/dev/scd0: contains 1 HFS partition
Volume name is "iPhoto Library" (locked)
Volume was created on Wed Dec 31 19:56:08 1969
Volume was last modified on Wed Dec 31 19:56:08 1969
Volume has 0 bytes free

But when I click on the desktop icon to view the files I now get this:
Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: only root can mount /dev/scd0 on /mnt/hfs

I also don't know what those dates "1969" are about since the files were created this year. Maybe that's nothing though. I'll keep working on it.