Hi Again.Thought you guys might be interested in what resulted as a result of your suggestions:

You said right click on the link (in the email
Save toHD
Then right click file, select 'Open with'
Select 'choose program'
Select WMP and "always use..."

Well, I could not do this from my Eudora email program. A right click there brought up the followiwng:

Transfer
Reply
Reply To All
Forward
Redirect
Make filter
View source
Send to browser
Message Plug-in
Delete
and 6 other options, all grayed out.

Oh well!

So I go to the site where the files actually came from...from where they got put in my email. I chose to download to my HD the gatesface.mpg file from:

http://www.pibmug.com/files/gatesface.mpg. It's there under the heading "Nov 7 Even better files..."

OK, I left clicked on it there and got the same result as when I clicked on it from my email letter. Just wanted to see if it would left click work there.

But from there I WAS able to download it to my HD (save target as) and then play it (following your suggestions.)

But when I wondered if it would NOW play from the link in my email and went back and left clicked to find out, it would not play...just got the blank page. with the tiny icon.

So I guess I'll try the legacy player and Divx or other freebies. BUT IT BUGS ME!

Thanks, Guys!

John