Something is now funked up with my Media Player 9. I've never had a problem clicking on an mpeg link and playing the movie on the spot. (downloading). But now when I click on an mpeg media player starts up and hangs at "connecting". Task manager shows mplayer.exe is hogging 99% of my CPU cycles. I end up having to kill it from the task manager. I am able to play local mpegs that already reside on my machine, but I can't seem to stream them. I've tried various other formats like WMV files and they work fine. Anyone familiar with this?