Treatid: thanks for your response, and I will try to answer your questions the best I can.
As I reported yesterday, when we download an Mp3 it is not stored in the library, but appears under Programs, Lime Wire, shared folder as an MPEG file. We are using the Windows ME operating system. So as you advised, it seems as if the MP3 files have become associated with a wrong program. The normal audio player we use is WINAMP.
Can you advise how to get the files associated back to where they were? charles krips