There is a setting marked "Rearrange my music." You may want to disable that.
Bob
Hi, I have a new computer that came with Vista installed. I've had computers since DOS 3.1 and have never experienced this problem (or even heard of it) before.
I noticed that I had new directories called "C:\Users\Ann\Music\Music\Music|Music" about 6 layers.
Each of them had sub-directories and all were empty. I deleted all of them so that things appeared normal. Now the

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