Ash-

You might just want to consider the W2K problem, patched to SP2. That is the last Micros~1 OS that will eve see the inside of my system. It doesn't have the spy-bot EULA (SP3 does, however, so don't upgrade beyond SP2). You also get a more stable OS (believe it or not), real task protection, and NTFS, which is worth the price of admission, IMHO.

Re the Media players vs. EZ-CD: the version of Real Player is 6.0, and the EZ-CD appears to be 4 (Dad removed it once it started acting up, hence the problem).

Thanks for the input, perhaps I can go to the Roxio site for additiona help?