okie i yanked the serial cable and emplode froze. i killed the program from memory and restarted it. i saw the two diectories it managed to make with little red things on the playlist icons. i right-clicked them and deleted them.

i said to hell with all this and bought a new pcmcia ethernet card for my laptop along with a crossover cable for $80.00CDN. at least i wont need to bother with the router now, i have one card just for each internet and rio. i managed to configure the ip address of my player and everything is running smoothly. thanks guys!