A few things: First, there is NO evidence that plants respond to music of any kind. I am fully aware of all the silly "experiments" quoted in the dovesong website, but the protocols and methodologies used in these were so bad, and the controls so poorly selected, that NO information can be gleaned from them. What they DO respond to is loud volumes, which, whether you call it thigmomorphogenesis, or any other thing (BTW, the definition in the link above is incorrect) results in stunted growth and poor growth. I have had numerous "discussions" about this with its proponents on the net. To a person they were not trained in scientific method, and were not in a postion to evaluate the claims made by sites like dovesong. As part of this ongoing debate, I was "forced" to undertake this experiment a few times myself. Each time the result was differnt. As anyone here probably knows, any given batch of seeds will respond differntly. Chance will ALWAYS make one batch outperform another. In my latest experiment (using snap beans) the controls in silence did the best, the ones exposed to classical (that was supposed to aid their growth) were doing so badly that I had to rescue the seeds and hand transplant, as they seemed to have no idea which way was up. The one exposed to rock faired better, almost as good as controls. My experience, and that of other (usually children in science fairs) indicates that it is merely luck of the draw. In any given experimental run, any batch can do better. That is why you need LARGE sample sizes, and repeated experimental runs. None of the experiments on the dovesong site has been replicated consitently. This is at the heart of science, and it would be nice if science fairs did more to get this point across. Elsewise I can flip a coin and conclude that coins always land tails up. Not just MHO, but the result of empirical evidence. As the great physicist Richard Feynmean said, if your theory does not agree with experimental data, it is wrong. Period. Second, I have had many conversations on this topic with Ross Koning, the author of the above referenced page, and I can assure you that it definitely is NOT his position that poeple are "too dumb and ill equipped [sic] and there is nothing to be learned from music and plant projects anyway, sort of arguments." At least not everyone. What he IS saying is that children learning in underfunded schools with teachers who are not able to individually shepherd children through the complicated maze of necessary controls and protocols are done more harm than good using this as an experiment in a science fair, as it teaches bad science, and helps to propagate this myth to the next generation of impressionalbe young people who are not critical enough to question things adults tell them, and just assume that they are true. While I certainly do not agree with Ross on everything, in fact I DO think that these experiments can be performed, as long as the teacher does not start out by saying that "you will find that the ones exposed to Mozart will do better," and makes sure they use a large sample size and adequate controls. In fact, these non-conformatory experiments are actually far more informative, scientifically thatn those that have a positive result, and lead to better science education. Not sure how great a sciece fair projst it would make, since most people will see the results as a failure. Perhaps the experiment should not be set up as "how music aids plant growth," but "challenging long-standing assumptions that music does affect plant growth."

I have all my photos on CD's. I scanned all the photos into folders, topic, year, celebration, whatever and burned them. I made two copies. One is in the safe deposit box at the bank, the other in my house. I only scan onto CD-R's. I find that they are tolerated by other computers and as long as I burn them as jpeg, I can view them on the TV thru my DVD player. (Your DVD player has to be able to project the jpeg images) The cost of CD-R's is so low, in fact if you watch the ads, you can often get them free after rebates. I often send CD's to family and friends after a get-together. The cost is so low. I try to use brands that I have had good experience with. It is also very helpful to have dates on the images, at least some of them, to stop the arguments of 'when was that taken' as you view them. I do have a software program that helps me organize the pictures and allows me to insert text on the images. Images on CD's last virtually forever. Storing them on other media may not be. It took a long time to sort thru the old photos and scan them into the computer, but the knowledge that fire, storm, whatever cannot take these memories is a good reward.

To paste Album Art, right click the grey icon, a dropdown will have the selection "Paste Album Art" *note, you'll have to have the album art or photo to be on your clipboard to have "paste album art" to show. Which means you'll have to copy the album art photo from somewhere. In my music folder there is some album art, but not all songs come with the album art photo in the song tag. Rip means that it will save the burn info in C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\My Documents\My Music, or the folder of your choice. Rip will also burn if there is a cd inserted. Burn means it will burn straight away with a cd inserted, basically the same thing except Rip saves the info to a folder, possibly to burn at another time. There is a way to organize all your music by genre, year, rating, artist, ect. I used to have the library organized on the older WMP9 & 10, but don't have the time now to figure it out. I just play the songs and they are saved in the library in alphabetical order.

I have Windows XP and when I am in My Pictures, I have the file and folder tasks down the left side of my screen. One of these tasks is copy this file (so I highlight the picture) then 'copy this file". When I select drive e: (which is my cd file - I have a separate dvd file) that's when I get the 'e: is not accessible.' In the past I have been able to transfer lots of pictures at one time. Now when I click on my e: drive, not even trying to transfer, it says not accessible. Also, I can put a music cd or game cd in that drive and it works. I just can't transfer or even click on the drive? I have an e-machine with Windows XP. Thanks for your help cboy - tried what you suggested, didn't work.