@vitamin - unfortunately James is right - Sky only supports wmp11 and its special DRM stuff - so running wmp11 is essential ... right well - i suppose i have to start from scratch again ? :( I could just copy those .dlls back (as i have backups) and go back to the error rpcrt4.dll is causing ... anyone maybe have a 'to do' list to get .net 2, wmp11, ie6, rpc working on wine-1.1.19 ? thanks ! helps' much appreciated and am sure there loooaaaddssss of people waiting for a working solution and get sky player running .... Alex