Yes, I did reboot. When I try to open the slideshow from the CD, every CD drive acts as if the CD is blank. After the burn process, the CD was verified and seemed fine. This is nuts. So........ you downloaded my exe file from the ftp site and couldn't get it to run? I'll upload it again just in case the upload did not go through correctly. As I said, the exe file itself will run just fine on all of my systems, and also my friend that downloaded it. The whole problem is with the CD..... strangest thing I've ever seen.