Guys, I have the same problem too on my laptop running Debian Etch (testing). I have purged xmms and the audio player plugin libaudioplayer1 and reinstalled using the stable branch.

On my other desktop with Suse, a right click over Xmms brings up a context menu with option to play a CD,
on this version I just see, play file, play directory, play location and view file info.

Is it possible that some of the plugins will also have to be uninstalled and purged as well, or is there another way round this. My desktop is multibooting with knoppix 5.1.1 so I will try the commands on that machine as well.
Thanks in advance for any help.