Mac,

Thanks for your instructions and ideas.

I went through the running applic aplications in the Task Manager several times - First iteration killing processes I started and/or were in my Startup folder. No luck. Next, I went through and killed applications which I thought might impact the system. I looked up most of the app names on the net to see what they did...Nothing strange was there. Finally, I killed so many things that the computer rebooted. Still, this dialog is a problem with JAWS.

Then I installed the demo from your web site (v. 2007?) and the Roland/Edirol synth on my wife's XP Media Center laptop to see if I could reproduce the problem with JAWS and this dialog. Amazingly, everything worked fine.

One other strange thing on my system (which no one seems to be able to reproduce and was not reproducible on my wife's system) - When I hit Alt+Control+D to bring up the Master Volume settings on my system, nothing happens. I've never had this work on my system despite reinstalling BIAB several times. I don't know if this is somehow related.

I'm wondering what BIAB and/or the system is trying to do when this DXi Synth Settings dialog is brought up. I don't think any other window pops up. What other processing is trying to happen here? If the synth is installed, playing songs and navigating through songs works fine. It's just opening this dialog that seems to be the problem, and only on my system.

I wonder if there is some conflict with my sound cards. I have a EMU 0202 USB for BIAB output (using ASIO drivers), and a SB Live USB sound device for JAWS and Windows default sounds. I don't think that shold be a problem.

If I can't reproduce this problelm on other systems I guess that points to something very strange on my system, but I can't understand what it could be.

Oh yes, my other system specs are 2.6 GHz processor, 1.25 GB RAM, XP Pro SP3. So, that shouldn't be a problem.

We might have to throw up our hands.

Thanks anyway for all your advice and suggestions. We sure gave this a good shot!

-- Pete