david86broad you are a beautiful beautiful man My player was all packed up and ready to be shipped back and i thought 'your right what have i got to lose.' Lo and behold all my problems are solved and i have my MD player working again. The new 3.2 software has hit the spot. Im so happy! I couldnt get a replacement because they had all sold out. (doing a happy dance while listenin to tunes on my newly fixed MDplayer) Thanks to everyone who took time to answer my post, appreciate it a lot Now if you will excuse me i got some tunes to start transferring thank you again Nik