Hi, Jeff -

Yours might be a different problem, but i just wanted to share my experience since it sounded somewhat similar.

You said you re-installed. Did you remove the original folder or just re-install over the original? I might would try re-installing to a completely different folder.

Did you install to C:\Program Files? If you are running Vista or Win7, I would avoid doing that, because the OS doesn't like changes to configuration files there.

Do you have a number of DirectX effect or DXi synths? It might be getting hung up reading those from the registry. I'm not in front of my machine, but maybe running DXDIAG (I think that's the program) and see if there are any problems, or even if you could exclude a number of effects/synths temporarily.

Just some thoughts.

John

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