Thjanks for the fast reply, Kerry.

I've tried uninstalling both PD and AVS in the past, but I'll give it another shot, now that I "think" windows is repaired. Editing anything AVS from the registry sounds like a good plan, but I'd need some direction for that as I'm probably not near as advanced a user as most of y'all.

Thanks for the advice on the Player, I was going to ask for that as well as some good free burner software. I'll go get it now and I doubt I'll be so lucky, but I'm hoping another player will take the associations away from AVS and put things back to normal.

Yeah, I know, I'm delusional to think that's going to happen, lol.