Actually, I got it fixed. See, I hadn't rebooted in a long time, but I did last night, and there is a little nipper of a file in my startup that came from good ol REAL PLAYER that caused the whole issue. When I ended the process, I was able to play those two songs again. REAL has always sucked by trying to take control of all your multi-media, but this "real one" bullcrap takes the cake. They finally made it onto my black list of software that should never have existed. I can't find anyway to get that out of my startup, but I will...oh yes, I will....