Paul, I would like to apologize to you for my attitude.
Why did I react the way I did?
Starting in June, I was out of work for nearly 4 months, and nearly died from 16 medical episodes. I was in a wheelchair for close to 2 months, and then with a cane for another month. Frankly that changes one's outlook on "what is important in life". Just as I came back to work, we moved our web site to another reseller, and changed web masters. That was requiring up to 80 hours/week. I read your Thread the day I posted and you had already bought a drive off eBay.
I was extremely tired and pressured. 
BACKGROUND: Since 1992, MTU has sold CDR drives and CDG Certified drives since 1997. I have talked to MANY customers who had bought as many as 6 CDR drives advertised to "read/write CDG discs", but discovered that none of them would. When they bought from MTU, ours worked as advertised... perfectly as defined in our
web site page. Read the
Important announcement above on the same page.
In the past, we have sold Yamaha, Sony, HP and Teac CDG capable drives. However, we found that to test properly, we had to burn THREE different disc images to insure we only shipped
Professional grade drives for CDG importing, playing and duplication. When we bought 10 drives, and rejected only 4, we were quite happy. When we rejected 6 or even 10 per 10 testing lot for several times in a row, we were very unhappy and found a new vendor. Plextor has the lowest reject rate we ever found, but they were the most expensive. We learned what "Professional" quality required to protect our reputation.
We also discovered that we had to use the highest grade discs (gold metal in the early days) for the 3 we burned for each drive. Otherwise, the test discs could cause random dots to appear also, which tainted the drive results.
We had to amortize the cost to test 10 drives consuming 30 discs ($1 each back then) over the good drives that were not rejected and returned. I assure you this was an "act of love" for our customers.
There was no profit! 
There was/is ONLY ONE CDROM drive that could read individual CDG tracks using the standard ASPI interface method. All other software only did a full disc image copy, which prevents making custom assembly discs, playing directly from the disc, or importing separate tracks. That was a Plextor SCSI drive that costs more than their CDRW burner at that time. As George and others have pointed out, ONLY Plextor today with the older ASPI means of interfacing will work. If you wanted a CDROM for CDG work, it would cost more than we charge for our burner... which is why we don't sell them.
No other CDROM would work at all.
We have worked nearly full time since January 2005 to finish our MMC CD/DVD/ROM drive interface software so it will work for CDG. Hoster 3.300 released 4 days after George stated it was coming. It works with a number of drives to import tracks from CDG discs. Which drives? The jury is still out, but the list is growing. We tested our 3.300 against two other software products released for over a year, that use MMC software decoding. Hoster 3.3 with our CDG Certified Plextor drives creates a
Professional import. One of the other companies we tested has stopped selling their CDROM drive and now sells the same Plextor drives we do, but they don't test theirs. WhY did they stop? Their imported files were very inferior, and their customers were complaining too much! They placed "cheap" before quality. Quality is everything at MTU... PERIOD!
Furthermore, our Hoster 3.300 with our MMC software decoding along with their drive imports far fewer random dots in the lyrics and background than their code. Since they license their MMC code, they can't fix their problems. We wrote and own our code and one of our new programmers with a Masters in CSC is now looking for a bug to fix and make our import as perfect as possible.
So, when I read this Thread, I was facing the old story of all those folks from our past with multiple "CDG capable" drives that failed. Then, when MTU's reputation was being damaged in our Forum, and users defending us, I was too terse because I didn't have the time then to explain. I knew your drive would probably fail, and the USB box had a slight chance of working; we have tested almost all that are available and they DO NOT work reliably if they work at all.
I hope this helps you understand why I reacted as I did.
Again, I apologize to you as I was wrong to react that way.
I wish you a Merry Christmas! 