Okay, figured out XP sound problem. It worked fine for a while, but then I tried to play some MP3 and .WAV files and all of a sudden, no sound. Odd that.

So I went into System Sounds or whatever, and found that it was set to Mute. Okay, turn it off, try again from Control Panel System Sounds, it works. Try playing MP3 again, no sound. Go check and it's set back to Mute. Turns out some stupid utility called Music Match or something would always turn off the sound before playing anything. That's a useful feature. I think it was punishing me for not going to its fucking internet site and signing up.

It still seems to have a problem with thinking files are in use when they're not. Reboot, reboot, reboot. You'd think I was using Win 3.1 again. . . .