First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for being so supportive, and helping me with my problem.

I started messing with patch maps and other suggestions, and then a thought struck me. I shut everything down and booted RealBand from that little black hard drive it shipped in. Low and behold, the MIDI files opened and played perfectly.

So, I uninstalled and reinstalled BBW/RealBand and all is well. Never did figure out what went wrong with the first install. I'm guessing it was me, probably when I was going back and forth figuring out whether to use MME or ASIO.

That was the only annoying thing - having to uninstall the entire package and reinstalling everything. But I'm back in business, and I learned a bit about patch maps and MIDI, all thanks to you "MIDIots."

Again, thanks!

Bob in S. Florida