Hi guys, thanks for the posts. It must be my Windows machine since I noticed other multimedia problems on it. Even though I re-installed Windows (Me) twice now, it still has those same problems. Upgrading MediaPlayer to the new v9 Beta fixed at least the player, but for example Musicmatch still crashes all the time. I did test a second Rio, btw., and saw the same problems so at that point I decided it must be the server. So, I am sure I am gonna get the "get a LINUX box!" message now, right? ;-)
On top of everything and not related, my harddrive with 50GB of music on it died. Backup? Backup? What was that again? ;-( Does anyone know a place where you could get a replacement HD controller board for a Maxtor drive?