Jules, it is working better. The only thing now is that it only loaded 3 songs out my entire database. When I do select one of those songs all the functioons do work however. It's getting close ! My alternative solution is to remove fidsift and see what happens, but if you'd like to straighten this out with fidsift than I'm more than willing. If so, just let me know what you want to try next. (FYI: I reloaded your 2 disk verson of empegVNC, just for kicks, and it still doesn't work. I have a feeling that this is a related problem).