[D.Arbib]

Thank you, One of the very first things I did was to disable firewalls ( I use Sygate) and recently I had occasion to wipe my "C" drive and re-install XP pro SP2. "C" drive is my default drive and I have a "D" drive which has identical OS and programs.

Now initally I could get MusicMatch to work on "C" but after I installed many of the same programs as on "D" I landed up with the same problem of MusicMatch refusing to link into the web.

The curious situation is that MusicMatch is OK on my "D" drive, albeit I have had to reinstall it after it annouced it did not close normally.

So, in my limited ideas, I feel that one of my programs may be making a call on the setup configuration of the default "C"
drive. Don't tell me, but I may have to re-install XPpro/SP2 and check which of the programs I have is causing this, which it does not do on "D" How very tedious.

Then I have also tried to download from CNet direct download and a very curious panel came up as the download started/ stalled and here it is:

Setupdll\SetupDLL.ppp(2198)
p.APP: MusicMatch Jukebox
PVENDOR: MusicMatch
PGUID: 8F1122E-E90C-4EE9-AB0C-7FDE2BA2C26
%9,1,0.429 @ Windows XP Service Pack 2 (2600) BT_OTHER 0.64

I have no idea what this means and need help I have, of course,
communicated directly and downloaded in e-mails all the details of my setup. So far, no reply