Incidentally, that problem only seems to happen for me under NT. I don't recall ever having to reboot the player on Win98.
Curiouser and curiouser (or something), as prof. Dodgson would have said... I am running W98, and needed to reboot the player only once (with several restarts of HT and even Win machine and one player upgrade (finally) in the meantime).
Hmm, I think I still have room for one drive in W98 box. I think I will make it double boot

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Cheers!
Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green