O.K. Confession time for me. Keep in mind I only own three pairs of shoes and one purse....I own over 2,000 CDs. Last year for Christmas I bought my sister an Ipod Classic 160 GB and planned to put my entire CD collection on it. But on I-tunes, I only had enough room to put 1,200 CDs. So now I have to get either a larger hard drive, or an external hard drive. I'm a moron when it comes to computers, so have to depend on the Best Buy computer geeks, who seem to have little patience with someone like me. Any suggestions? If I put all the music on the external drive, would it be protected if something should happen to the computer? If I had enough room, my sister could also add her CD collection to my computer and then I can re-load her Ipod. Win/win for both of us. Eventually, I'd like an Ipod for myself, but what kind? Is the Touch a better product than the Classic?

You have some serious Trojan Virus problems. I don't know how you got a HJT log if the computer keeps restarting. I see you just joined, so let me say welcome!! Just so you know, Service Pack 2 or SP2 is available. Service packs increase the safety of your system. Also Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) is out of date. In HijackThis, put a check mark in the following and fix. O2 - BHO: (no name) - (00110011-4b0b-44d5-9718-90c88817369b) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (11904ce8-632a-4856-a7cc-00b33fe71bd8) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (15ACE85C-0BB1-42d1-9E32-07EB0506675A) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (202a961f-23ae-42b1-9505-ffe3c818d717) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (479fd0cf-5be9-4c63-8cda-b6d371c67bd5) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (5753791b-f607-48ca-814e-91c14d081f9e) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (7070a8f9-08a4-ca47-0ab0-1eb9e4ee1f3b) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (746455fe-d059-47e7-af0e-140e03f5a447) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (77701e16-9bfe-4b63-a5b4-7bd156758a37) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (7a7e6d97-b492-4884-9abb-c31281dcc4f2) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (860c2f6b-ca82-4282-9187-beccbb66f0af) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (87185e78-a61b-4db3-965a-3235bbd7a622) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (8dc8f96d-34f7-1501-a2a4-631341aa3ac1) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (9c5875b8-93f3-429d-ff34-660b206d897a) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (a2595f37-48d0-46a1-9b51-478591a97764) - (no file) O2 - BHO: ASGP32.ASGP - (AB268D16-3B58-482F-91EB-8D305534302F) - C:\WINDOWS\System32\asgp32.dll O2 - BHO: (no name) - (b212d577-05b7-4963-911e-4a8588160dfa) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (cf021f40-3e14-23a5-cba2-717765721306) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (d1ac752e-883f-4ed8-8828-b618c3a72152) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (e2b2b5a1-b48c-4886-a318-723916a01024) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (e3eebbe8-9cab-4c76-b26a-747e25ebb4c6) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (e6d5237d-a6c7-4c83-a67f-f9f15586fa62) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (fe2d25c1-c1db-4b5e-9390-af1cb5302f32) - (no file) O2 - BHO: (no name) - (FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF) - (no file) If you notice, this will be all the 02 - BHO that get checked and fixed Be sure you match these 04's, because you do have some good 04's that you need to keep. O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Start Page] C:\WINDOWS\system32\svcnt32.exe home O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [37.tmp] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\37.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [38.tmp] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\38.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [6.tmp] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\6.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [7.tmp] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\7.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [6.tmp.exe] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\6.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [7.tmp.exe] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\7.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [A.tmp] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\A.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [A.tmp.exe] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\A.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [17.tmp] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\17.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [17.tmp.exe] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\17.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [1E.tmp] C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\1E.tmp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [glght.exe] C:\WINDOWS\System32\glght.exe O8 - Extra context menu item: &AIM Search - res://C:\Program Files\AIM Toolbar\AIMBar.dll/aimsearch.htm O21 - SSODL: ryYxujAshx - (BC9E7CA8-1634-D602-E96B-91D0A7E54126) - C:\WINDOWS\System32\qurbh.dll (file missing) O21 - SSODL: SystemCheck2 - (54645654-2225-4455-44A1-9F4543D34546) - C:\WINDOWS\System32\vbsys2.dll (file missing) You're also going to need to download and run AIMFix After you've done all this, turn off system restore - (right click my computer/ properties/ system restore tab/ put check in box) Restart computer in safe-mode by tapping F8 key on boot, then run your AVG Anti-Virus while in safe-mode. When you're done go turn system restore back on by unchecking the box. When you get it all fixed be sure and get the Microsoft updates, especially SP2.

I wasn't clear enough. The tracks were all fine and would have played thru had I let them. However, I interrupted them by going to another track and then another after I listened enough to each one to satisfy my interest. While I was doing this, I soon realized that the tracks were disappearing as I clicked on the next selected track. This effect appeared to only happen with this album and in fact when I just now attempted to replicate more track loss, the remaining tracks would not disappear on this album either. Just before my initial post I had just checked that some random albums' tracks seemed to be complete and wouldn't disappear either. The lost tracks only occurred in one or two sessions with that one album. There is an extra issue. I have several cd albums that are listed under 'various' because the lead singer shared singing with some of her well known singing friends. This album is one of those, BUT I haven't lost tracks from a couple other 'various' albums I just checked (and had similarly scanned). If anyone knows where 'various' tracks go if they loose their association, they could be there I suppose. As usual, I hadn't thought to Google this issue until I posted. I found a 37 page active chat about this and similar track loss that began in 2009 and continues to the present. I suppose this could be a random general problem. I can always re-rip the cd but I was (and am) afraid that the problem will repeat. I am still wondering if I accidently clicked on some setting that hid the tracks so they wouldn't repeat and now should change a setting that will un-hide them.

Thanks again for the grounding - and don't apologize for being harsh as it can be good for me to hear. I do feel that I am a peacekeeper way too much at home, but I constantly go back to my own two children and I guess I'm trying to protect them from heated battles in front of them or worse - a divorce. I'm to a point now where I seriously wonder whether a divorce might be better on everyone given the angst involved. @ annkathryn: I realize the stipulations of the 529K. What I would do would be to drop his $12,000 into my younger kids' 529 funds which I started for each basically when they were 1. The idea then would be to stop funding those two accounts for a while and pay my SS the amount per month that would normally go to those two accounts until he reaches the $12K. To add insult to this injury, both SS and my wife feel that's too long a time to get the money and would insist I take it out of savings and pay the savings back over time. Seriously, I look back over this stuff and I say to myself "How is it that I can even consider that I'm NOT in the right here". As right as I may be, my wife is so narrowly focused and impervious to reason that she literally goes haywire when I push these buttons. But this is a stepfamily forum and not a divorce forum so let me throw another question in there. My wife and I had a real blow-out this morning over the SS again because now her contention is that her SS is the way he is because I have been a failure as a father to him. She'll admit I was great to him up until he started failing college, but from there I've not been his buddy like she would have hoped. She wants me to take him golfing, to take him on a trip with me somewhere, and to basically put my arm around him and say, "Hey buddy, what can I do to help you in your life." Without the full-on story with this, fact is I have been the one that has tried to help him map his life, and he doesn't ever seem interested. I WAS the one taking him to court, dealing with lawyers, etc when he's had his recent troubles. But I see the way he acts with the money issues above, I see him flick his cigarette butts around the yard and not care, I see his trash he leaves by the driveway every other day because he does not want it in his car, and I still have his texts demanding the child support money because it is his. Frankly, I have no desire to hang around with a person like that. I guess I should be the better person and try harder to mentor him, but I just feel such anger with the way he feels the world owes him stuff that I find myself uninspired. Am I wrong? Do I need to suck it up and be better about this? Is my wife correct when she tells me that I am failing him? This has even more emphasis today - the day after Father's Day. Stepson said nothing to me the whole day. I know I'm not is bio-dad, but in the past he has thanked me for basically fulfilling the role. Guess I shouldn't feel too bad - he said nothing to his bio-dad either.