$HOME/.xmms/config

$HOME meaning my (as in the user's) home directory? i.e. /home/ricardo/ or just /home/ ?

Cos it's definitely not in /home/ricardo/ , that's the first place I looked.

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Brownie points lost by Linux = 20

Sure, let's see you hack the registry keys it stored its settings in as easily ;-)

No need to. uninstall usually removes settings, reinstall adds defaults. The only reg hacking I've had to do is on servers, but you expect to fiddle on a server. I'm just getting grumpy because things either a) never work or b) work for a short period, then fall over.

It IS frustrating when you know that you *COULD* boot into M$W2K and do everything I use my home computer for, crash-free. (Believe it or not, I have only experienced 1 or 2 crashes- and that was when I was running a default installation of IIS, unpatched... and u can guess what happened!) Then it was off to d/l the patch and get the Service Pack from Technet, and all is hunky dory.

But I'm determined........

And I've always wanted a Penguin. ;)

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