Back to my pet peeve here and I'm noticing something interesting now. My audio will go away every once and a while, and it comes back after a sleep/wake operation, although the autowake doesn't always seem to be working. What's interesting tho' is that there are often a number of queued up MSN audio alerts that all play one after the other when I wake up. I'm currently running the latest 3.5 MSN Messenger release and am wondering if any of you out there that are seeing the audio disappear problem are using MSN as well. I've just disabled the audio alerts in MSN to see if that changes anything. Cheers, Erik