I'm at work right now (yippy), and one of our PC's runs several applications 24/7. Out of curiosity, I opened up Microsoft System Monitor (it's win98), and noticed that CPU usage is right around 80%. That seems high to me, but that's not the point. I opened up Winamp and the CPU utilization jumped up for a second, then back to 80% (not playing a song yet). Here's the weird part: When I play a song, the CPU usage goes down to below 70%! Then, as soon as I stop the song or exit from winamp, back up to 80%. THIS MAKES NO FREAKIN SENSE! Please tell me why this might be happening, or anything you can think of because I'm totally stumped on this one.