Thanks for the reply. I trashed the preferences and still it made no difference. Since then, I got a hold onto another machine. I installed the software there and it all works fine, some there is something really wrong with mine. One difference between the machines is that mine is Win 7 32bit whereas the one I am testing on now is 64bit. Perhaps that has something to do. At least I know it’s not something wrong with the software. Thanks for your suggestions, let’s consider this a case closed.