Quote - I'm just starting to animate another story he did about little black ants, but I first need  to find a musician to put it to music ( I envison sort of a latino/salsa/hip-hop beat, which comes to mind when I think of the old "Ants, ants, ants in your pants" lymric.) 

Also I just had another hard drive crash, so I need to replace it and hope my backup works.

Gaah! On the HDD crash....! As for the music.... Have you ever looked at SonicFire Pro? The nice thing about the app is that is SmartSound is always turning out new content to use. Philippe Bouyer uses that app for the scoring on the Vue 5 and 6 demo reels, so there's a quick way to hear what you can get quality-wise.... The really nice thing about SFP4 is the way the music tracks work. A music track comes in a multi-layered format; so you have a 'layer' for drums, vocal, brass, etc, and can mute, or fade control the given layers. The music is also created in timed packets, with a few other bits of info on things like tempo included, so you can extend a music track simply by assigning a longer runtime (or shorten it), and the application with fiddle with the packets so that you get a seamless bit of music. You can also disassemble and combine packets from various scores, and create something unique. There's lot more that' easier to check out on the website (including getting sample plays from the various smartmusic collections for sale) IF you don't mind working with .wav clips, another option is to check out the Magix Soundpool DVD; #12 was just released. You get 6+gigs of varying types of music styles you can edit in a audio program. The liscencing is a bit more restrictive than what Smartsound has on SFP4, though....