You might need to add your user to the cdrom group or something like that
Xtophe is spot on (and he's not even a Slackware user :-) ).
Apparently you have never used another account than root before, so I am glad that VLC forced you to create an unprivileged user account! It will be so much safer.
In Slackware, you need to add yourself to a number of groups in order to access your hardware properly. These groups are:
plugdev, power, cdrom, audio, video, scanner, floppy.
The easy way to do this is run the following commands
as root, assuming your account is called "ione2bagoottoo", and then let your user logout and login again to see the effects.
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gpasswd -a ione2bagoottoo plugdev
gpasswd -a ione2bagoottoo power
gpasswd -a ione2bagoottoo cdrom
gpasswd -a ione2bagoottoo audio
gpasswd -a ione2bagoottoo video
gpasswd -a ione2bagoottoo scanner
gpasswd -a ione2bagoottoo floppy
Good luck, Eric