Greetings, Wow, another flood of helpful information. You guys truly rock, and I thank you all sincerely for your input. I think Ivy's resigned herself to re-installing the system (XP). We'll do a backup of her files this evening, then I want to try the Hijacker (sp?) stuff to see just what's crawling around in the registry. After that I plan to re-install. What a solution... :-/ I love my Linux systems. :) Thanks again to everyone who responded, you've all been a great help. Best, dp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user