Thanks for the replies so far. Here is some more information. 1. I have been using auto sync to create the show. 2. My pic. files with one exception, are all below 250mb. 3. Music - one wave file, and 3 mp3 files. 4. Music runs 15 min. 46 sec. -- 4.5 sec. per slide. 5. I have a Dell computer, 512 mb ram 80 GB hard drive. 6. Using windows media player for music. 7. Playing slide show from pc, not a cd. However, I do need to put it one a cd by tomorrow. Just created another show, and this time when I ran the show, about halfway through, it froze on one slide - the music kept on playing till the end. Also, sometimes when creating a show I get an error message - "Access violation - 004EB378 address 00000007. " What is the raw .pte file, and where do I find it. Will send it if I can find it. Thanks again. Bill F