Oh I tried EVERYTHING as far as ASPI goes... didn't work. And I paid for that program!!

I paid for AudioCatalyst (which uses the same ripping engine as Audiograbber), and I couldn't get it to work on my NT box with a certain disk drive, no matter what I did with ASPI. It only worked on my 98 box. So you're not alone. Fortunately, there are so many different options for DAE on PC's these days...