I don't even know how to begin to explain the problem I am having now. It seems my optical drives have become invisible to the OS. I last used them on Sunday night, October 19. I wanted to fool around a bit with FS today, so I clicked on the icon and waited the 20-30 seconds it takes for the application to launch, only to have a window come up telling me to put the disk in the drive and restart the program. The disk was indeed already in the drive, so I clicked again and waited the requisite interminable period for the drive to do its thing and the splash to show up. Again, I got the window and its absolutely incorrect message. I tried the other drive, only to get the same results. I go to My Computer and I see there is but Drive F: there. Drive E: is not to be seen. There physically is a disk in Drive F:, but the disk is not shown by My Computer to be in the drive.

It may be applicable to all of this that I fooled around with iTunes and QuickTime in an effort to make some .wav files play. I have a small digital recorder and I wanted to transfer four files from it to my computer. I did that, then wanted to play them. A window came up telling me I needed iTunes and QuickTime to do this. I already had iTunes, so I downloaded QuickTime along with a newer version of iTunes. That didn't work-- the .wav files did not play back. So I took the iTunes and QuickTime stuff off. That was late Sunday evening. I did not use my computer at all during the entire day of October 20. I wanted to fool around with FS today, and that is when I discover my optical drives are not recognized by the OS. I tried a System Restore to the point when QuickTime was removed, but still no progress. Any ideas as to what I can do?