[X-Newbies] Windows Media Player config

[Steven Rogers]

I'm setting up an G4 from scratch with Tiger installed, going through  
all the little config details, and I'm having a weird problem with  
WMP and/or Safari. It seems like Safari is storing intermediate info  
in a place that WMP doesn't have permission to access.

For example, go here, click on 10,000 maniacs, pick "Candy Everybody  
Wants" and use WMP for the player. On my other Mac (a G5 running  
Tiger from the factory) it plays fine in the embedded player. On the  
one I'm configuring, WMP launches and then puts up the message  
"permission denied".

http://www.rhino.com/retrovid/index.lasso

On another site that is much simpler, I get a similar error "The file  
name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" - and I  
get that on *both* machines - so what's up with that?  This is just a  
page with a link to a WMV file. When I download the file and double- 
click it, plays fine.

http://www.v2rocket.com/start/others/aud_vid.html

Is there something I'm missing here about the configuration of WMP  
and Safari?

Thoughts?
Steve