Poppi--is this WinME?? I have flaky things happening with mine--altho' nothing THIS flaky--or spooky. I'm in the process of making sure EVERYTHING is backed up--and easily backed up. I've just done a long search on all my CDs for all related Vicky and Mike things, consoldated them and have put them on their own CD's. I'm going back to 98SE!! Hope its an easy fixable problem and not what you suspect.