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Is this just me? I have tried several different versions of CF, and it happens in all of them. I just did a clean install of Windows XP Pro and ran all of the Windows updates. I installed a fresh copy of CF 1.6 and built my library of media files. Whenever I add a song to the playlist, it begins to play but stutters and skips continously. I finally opened up the task manager and the CPU is pegged at 100%. I am running a M10000 with 512 Megs of RAM. I moved the visualizations into the inactiveplugins, but that didn't help. It only happens on music, I can watch a video file with no problem. Does anybody have any suggestions before I ditch this hardware and buy P4?