DRM is at the heart of this but I read your post twice and can't determine where your audiobooks came from. And that is who we ask about this.
I have downloaded audiobooks from my library on 2 seperate MP3 (both creative zen vision m 30GB) over the last year. Now I am trying to move/organize the files but I am unable. I have tries to send them to an external hard drive and the files move but the security upgrade to play the audiobook is lost. Any suggestions? I am using windows XP.

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