It doesn't seem to be the system, though. I'd sincerely doubt it'd be the sound card. It seems to just be that the files themselves are screwy. I'll get a notice all the time from Limewire saying "We've detected a corruption in this here file, wanna go ahead anyway?", and I usually just click yes because 'corruption' usually just means that somehow it got screwed up so there's a skip or hiccup or two in the song. I don't believe it has anything to do with my computer just not being able to play the songs, as it plays regular CDs fine, and when I actually do get a successful, uncorrupted download, it plays fine and burns fine. All I was complaining about was the fact that it's very rare, at least in the things I'm looking for, to find a song that plays perfectly all the way through without skips, and in turn burns to a CD. Finding the files in the first place is a tough gig, having them be corrupted just makes matters frustrating. I used Bearshare for a little while before and it had the same problem.