Hi:

Well, Windows Media Player is doing wehat it should be doing. How come? I simply have no final answer, just a logical likely explanation. It just all ofa sudden worked today when I went back to the site where the mpeg files were and clicked on the link.

But I was playing around yesterday with entries of programs in the Program Control tab or section of Zone Alarm and I made several changes. Too many to remember which ones or exactly what I did with a given program. My guess is I, without any intent to correct the WMP problem, changed things so that WMP COULD contact the internet...which would explain why - before - I could play the mpeg file when it was on my HD but not when I tried to access it from the site.

John