Fixed
But damn...I HAD to fruit my pc
This is a fresh XP install on a new raid array, so still tweaking things. Had forgotten that for some twisted reason...Quicktime is necessary for some vids to play. Which makes no damn sense, since I'm running WMP and viewing wmv files in this case
In any case...it's fixed. Sorry for the false alarm Gary and thanks much for following up on the issue with this post so I could be sure it was just me