Is it my imagination, or will this advanced player on this advanced operating system, not play mpg 2's?. I have many cd's with mpg 2's that crash my xp system and a friends xp system when trying to play on MP 8.0. If I go back to a earlier version on windows 98se, and an earlier version of media plalyer, they play fine. What gives here. I can play them fine on my ati multimedia suite, but have many cd's with autoplay directing them to MS windows media player.