Well, just as mysteriously as it happened, it has gone away and WMP is now once again active. Hope it doesn't happen again. (Didn't realize until after I posted, that I was in the wrong forum category.)
I know there have been many complaints about WMP 10. This is the first problem I've had with it. It just stops responding as soon as it opens. I've tried re-booting, but the program will not respond at all and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Delete to end task the application. It first started happening when I was trying to edit a song title and artist of a song in my WMP library. Anyone have any similar problems? Any ideas? I'm running Windows XP Home version 2002 SP-2 on a Dell 8400.

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