Thanks for the info sberlin. I am looking around the forums here and doing some searches elsewhere. I am running the current vid drivers for my NVidia based 5600XT card. I do have by browser configured not to use the Java plugin, but with certain apps that have to use Java, there isn't much I can do unless I find a workaround or a solution! I even tried reinstalling DX9.0c and that did not solve the problem. It is about time to re-OS my system as it has been a bit glitchy here lately, so that might solve the problem..I will post after I do that and let you know what the outcome is. Thanks again for the help and info..it has been very useful to me!