FYI, I was able to develop a work around solution by playing the music, turning the sync mode off, and having the program display the slides at a specific timed sequence setting. It takes some adjusting of the time between slides and the number of slides but it will accomplish what I want. Thanks for the info. If the program can be modified later by allowing the mouse to work once the last slide is showing, it would help alot for what I use the program for. Great Program and excellent forum. Thanks, Colin