Well, scratch one hack :) I got paranoid, (and a little over zealous :) while trying to remove the GUID from Mediaplay, I reomved what I thought was the mediaplayer # no from the registry only to find out that it was the windows # no, so the bloody thing wouldn't boot any more without requesting I re-register, then falling over... :) Bugger! :) So now the laptop is running the select copy as well, though the good thing is that it will now run the 131Mb SP1, which once I'd got past the "you have 200Mb of a 2Gb disk left" problem that I always have upon re-install of XP... actually gave me more space back than it used, wierd! :P Now if only this bloody sparcstation would play ball I could go home... Oh yeah, check /. they have a link to "Amiga/C=64 radio" V. cool I'm getting all misty eyed with the pitch bends :) later jb