well so much for that idea umm.......................what now? it says nthg in the file exchange about default players or aythg...........the only place i remember seein smthg like that was when i was downlodin the real player it asked me if i wanted to set it as my default player - at the time i didnt know that qt cant run avis and it said that i could change it to my default in the preferences but i checked those preferences over like 5 times and i still didnt see anythg about default...............so got any ideas?