Just a quick update...have just tried to launch thru LW but same old same old!

Forgot to thank you so far with regards to blocking IP's...thank you

Still baffled about this 'duration' thing tho! When I tried to remove the 'garbage' on one of the files using Gspot it actually made the file 268kb from 668mb!! (alot of garbage in the file!) but still it recognised the file as an .avi file.