Yeah, I am going to hassle 'the man' to be added to the admin group. This is a laptop and it looks like I can not even setup a local printer (to print at home) without admin access.

Most installers will tell you at some point that you must be admin to install, instead of popping up wierd errors.

Jemplode is actually working OK, but it does not seem to like some WMA 9 files (file type not recognized) and I can't install empeg at work (yet). The $299 XP box at home works great with empeg though.

Thanx for the info. At least I didn't get one of those see the FAQ replies (with the link to the FAQ answering the exact question).