I just wanted to circle back for the benefit of any others who experience this problem. Rexabyte shared that driver 2.9.208 resolves my issue (my dealer installed 2.9.206).
Alternatively, an interim solution for home owners is to use Composer Home Edition and program to send an "On" command to the virtual switch portion of the driver when the DVD gets the "On" command.
Thanks Rexabyte!