----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Brizzi" <fmsorigray@earthlink.net>
> Microsoft Media Player, which brings my laptop to a burping sputter, has
an
> interesting clause in their user agreement:
> And there is NO WAY to get rid of it once it's installed.

Just to be abundantly clear-- are you saying that even deinstalling the
program won't help?  It sounds like you are.

By the way-- when I first hit "send" on this email, which at the time did
not include this sentence, the spell check I have on in MICROSOFT Outlook
Express stumbled over the word "deinstalling", suggesting I replace it with
"reinstalling."