The best solution is to simply stop using the LW player. It isn't very good and ads additional burden to LW when you try to play stuff with it.
I suggest browsing to the Shared folder and from there playing the files in the media player of your preference.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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