Here's a bit of irony on the QTPro front. It works just fine, and it paid for itself over the weekend. The irony? The day after I installed it, I discovered that my CD drive was vanished and the NVidia TV drivers were hosed. No telling when these things happened. Since the machine is networked, I seldom use the CD drive, and I don't use the nVidia "Video Capture" tools at all. Don't do TV any more. Of course I assumed QTPro was the culprit, so I removed it. No joy. I removed about 2 gigs of games after I discovered that secdrv.sys (notorious security system that wrecks CD drives, brought to you by your "friends" as Sierra) had somehow reappeared after I isolated and fried it for doing this (tossing the Sierra game infected with it) last November. I removed DivX and QTPro and installed the CD's drivers by every sequence of disable, install, enable, etc. I could think of, cursing at W2K for taking away the admin tool that NT uses to let me work with drivers (replaced with the user-friendly "Device Manager for Bob"). I spent hours debugging and surfing. The only clear information I could find was that Roxio's Easy CD frequently did what something had done to my drive. But I didn't put Roxio Easy CD on that machine, because it has screwed up others in my network. DirectCD specifically is certified pig poop. Then I ran across a reference to upgrading WMP7 as a solution, and sure enough, I had also added WMP7 to the machine when I was shopping for multimedia. I ran Remove on it, and lo, one option is to just remove the Roxio CD burner. MS has one of their circle-jerk relationships with Roxio, apparently, and WMP had installed it without telling me. The CD returned like Pop! The nVidia problem appears to be a coincidence, and updated drivers fixed it. QTPro is back on the machine, and WMP is in the toilet where it belongs, floating beside my Sierra games. I find a wonderful irony in the fact that the worst problems I have with Windows are usually associated with the crap created by MS. Even cheating, they can't make decent applications. M