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Are you testing it out with the top cover of the VCR still removed..? If so, there may be enough room light "leaking in" to the light sensors that it thinks there still isn't a cassette in the tray. Otherwise, apparently there's still something amiss with the tape sensing.
You might try operating the VCR without a tape in it and see if you can figure out what's wrong; perhaps there's some sort of mechanical/microswitch interlock that's out of whack. To operate the VCR without a tape, you'll have to remove the top cover of the VCR *and* the lid to the cassette tray, and cover up the light sensors (there should be one on both sides of the casette area, directly in line with the light bulb you just replaced). With the light sensors covered, if you push down the empty casette tray, you should be able to "fool" the VCR into thinking there's a casette present.
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